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The Moon Is Getting Slammed Way More Than We Thought

By bob-king - October 15, 2016 02:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study of the current rate of meteoroid impacts on the Moon suggests that those iconic astronaut boot prints we thought would be around for 2 million years may instead disappear after something like 80,000!
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Antares Raised to Launch Position for Sunday Night Launch to ISS

By ken-kremer - October 14, 2016 11:54 PM UTC | Missions
After a two year stand down, an upgraded commercial Antares rocket was rolled out to the NASA Wallops launch pad on Virginia's eastern shore and raised to its launch position today in anticipation of a spectacular Sunday night liftoff, Oct. 16, to the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical resupply mission for NASA.
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The Hidden Glaciers Of Mars

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2016 06:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science
New photos taken by the Mars Express probe reveal evidence of buried glaciers in a region that separates the planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands.
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The Universe's Galaxy Population Just Grew Tenfold

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2016 02:33 PM UTC | Extragalactic
New research from a team of UK scientists shows how the early Universe had 10 times more galaxies than previously thought!
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Weekly Space Hangout - October 14, 2016: Europe Crashes the Mars Party

By Fraser Cain - October 14, 2016 02:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 424: Lightning

By Fraser Cain - October 14, 2016 01:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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We Land on Mars in Just 2 days!

By bob-king - October 14, 2016 08:24 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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An Exoplanet With Huge Rings Intrigues

By Matthew Williams - October 13, 2016 06:29 PM UTC | Exoplanets
A new study by a team of researchers has shed further light on J1407b, a distant exoplanet that is believed to have a ring system 100 times as big as Saturn's
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Exclusive Photos Of The Recently Found 30-Ton Argentine Meteorite

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2016 05:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Shouldn't We Fix the Earth First?

By Fraser Cain - October 13, 2016 03:54 PM UTC | Site News
Fraser gives 5 answers to the question, "why should we explore space when we have so many problems here on Earth?"
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Carnival of Space #478

By susie - October 13, 2016 01:38 PM UTC | Site News
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This Weekend: A Hunter's Full Moon Kicks Off Supermoon Season

By David Dickinson - October 13, 2016 02:47 AM UTC | Observing
Ready for some lunar action of proxigean proportions? This weekend's Full Moon ushers in that most (infamous?) of internet ready cultural memes: that of the Supermoon. This moniker stands above the Blood, Mini, and Full Moons both Black and Blue as the Full Moon of the year that folks can't seem to get enough of, and astronomers love to hate.
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Opportunity Blazes Through 4500 Sunsets on Mars and Gullies are Yet to Come!

By ken-kremer - October 12, 2016 11:55 PM UTC | Planetary Science
The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days) exploring the Red Planet !! That's 50 times beyond her "warrantied" life expectancy of merely 90 Sols.
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A New Dwarf Planet Joins The Solar System Family

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2016 10:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is the farthest object from our Sun to date.
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Turns out Proxima Centauri is Strikingly Similar to our Sun

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2016 04:45 PM UTC | Stars
Contrary to what we previously though, Proxima Centauri has some striking similarities to our Sun, which includes a solar cycle
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President Obama Puts US All In For Mars

By Evan Gough - October 12, 2016 03:28 PM UTC | Space Policy
President Obama has always been a strong supporter of science, and now he has reaffirmed his support for a mission to Mars.
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SpaceX's Space Coast Launch Facilities Escape Hurricane Matthew's Wrath, May Resume Launches this Year

By ken-kremer - October 11, 2016 10:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration
SpaceX's key launch facilities on the Florida Space Coast escaped the wrath of Hurricane Matthew's 100 mph wind gusts late last week, suffering only some exterior damage to the satellite processing building, a company spokesman confirmed to Universe Today.
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X-Rays Are Coming From The Dark Side of Venus

By Matthew Williams - October 11, 2016 04:09 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study takes a look at observational evidence obtained about Venus during its 2012 transit of the Sun, which shows unexpected x-rays coming from the planet
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How Do Supernovae Fail?

By Fraser Cain - October 11, 2016 02:28 PM UTC | Stars
You know what's scarier than a supernova? A supernova that fails, imploding into a black hole, vanishing from the Universe.
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What was Sputnik One?

By Matthew Williams - October 10, 2016 07:15 PM UTC | Space Exploration
On October 4th, 1957, history was forever changed with the Soviet launch of Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite to be launched into orbit
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