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Uh Oh, NASA is Reviewing Psyche and May Terminate the Mission

By Evan Gough - July 20, 2022 01:48 PM UTC | Missions
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Earth has Clouds of Water. Hot Exoplanets Have Clouds of Sand

By Paul Sutter - July 20, 2022 09:47 AM UTC | Exoplanets
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We Finally Know Where the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays are Coming From: Blazars

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 20, 2022 12:21 AM UTC | Extragalactic
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The Gravitational Constant is Tricky to pin Down Accurately. Here's a new way to Measure it

By Paul Sutter - July 19, 2022 10:25 PM UTC | Physics
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We'll be Building Self-Replicating Probes to Explore the Milky Way Sooner Than you Think. Why Haven't ETIs?

By Evan Gough - July 19, 2022 05:43 PM UTC | Milky Way
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Betelgeuse and Antares Have Been Observed for Over 2,000 Years. Astronomers can use This to Figure out how old They are

By sjohnston - July 18, 2022 11:34 PM UTC | Stars
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A Mission Concept to fly a Solar Neutrino Detector Close to the Sun

By Paul Sutter - July 18, 2022 10:09 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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A New Method for Making Graphene has an Awesome Application: A Space Elevator!

By Matthew Williams - July 18, 2022 06:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration
At the upcoming 2022 IAC, the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) will present a paper that shows how graphene could lead to a Space Elevator!
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Dmitry Rogozin is no Longer the Head of Roscosmos

By Matthew Williams - July 18, 2022 06:16 PM UTC | Space Policy
According to recent reports, the inflammatary and blusterous Dimtry Rogozin has been replaced as head of Roscosmos.
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Two Spacecraft Could Work Together to Capture an Asteroid and Bring it Close to Earth for Mining

By Evan Gough - July 18, 2022 04:00 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Weird String-Like Object Found on Mars, Probably Dropped by the Rover

By Nancy Atkinson - July 18, 2022 02:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A new Record for the Strongest Magnetic Field Seen in the Universe: 1.6 Billion Tesla

By Paul Sutter - July 17, 2022 04:18 PM UTC | Physics
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Booster 7's BOOM, Nuclear Mission to Neptune, More JWST Images

By kuingul-gmail - July 15, 2022 07:39 PM UTC | Missions
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These Ancient Microbes Give a Glimpse of What Extraterrestrial Life Might Look Like

By Evan Gough - July 15, 2022 03:57 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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JWST Also Looked Inside the Solar System, at Jupiter and its Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - July 15, 2022 02:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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To get Artificial Gravity on the Moon, you'd Need a Giant Rotating Lunar Base

By Matthew Williams - July 15, 2022 01:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Kyoto University and one of Japan's largest construction companies are collaborating on a study for a "Lunagrass" rotating lunar base!
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The Earliest Galaxies Rotated Slowly, Revving up Over Billions of Years

By Paul Sutter - July 15, 2022 07:02 AM UTC | Extragalactic
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A New Instrument is Going to the ISS to Study the Climate Impact of Dust in Earth's Upper Atmosphere

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 14, 2022 11:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Here are the Locations in the sky for the First JWST Images

By Matthew Williams - July 14, 2022 06:47 PM UTC | Telescopes
A "NASA/JPL ambassador" created a map that shows where the objects shown in the James Webb's first images are within (or in relation to) the Milky Way.
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A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole and was Torn Apart. Surprisingly Little Actually Went In

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 14, 2022 12:12 AM UTC | Black Holes
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They're Here! Check out the First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope!

By Matthew Williams - July 12, 2022 01:02 PM UTC | Telescopes
The first images of the James Webb Space Telescope are here!
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Perseverance is Searching for the Perfect Landing Spot for the Upcoming Sample Return Mission

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - July 12, 2022 01:21 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Dusty Dark Galaxies in the Early Universe Revealed in Various Wavelengths

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 12, 2022 12:32 AM UTC | Extragalactic
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China's Tianwen-1 has Imaged the Entire Surface of Mars, Completing its Primary Mission

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - July 11, 2022 09:51 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Behold, the James Webb Space Telescope's First Image!

By Matthew Williams - July 11, 2022 06:56 PM UTC | Telescopes
NASA has just released the first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope!
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A Swarm of Swimming Robots to Search for Life Under the Ice on Europa

By Evan Gough - July 11, 2022 06:43 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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China is Considering a Nuclear-Powered Mission to Neptune

By Matthew Williams - July 11, 2022 01:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A team of Chinese scientists have proposed a mission that would explore Neptune and its largest moon Triton using a nuclear-powered spacecraft.
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The Most Threatening Asteroid Just got Downgraded to "Harmless". No Impact in 2052

By Andy Tomaswick - July 11, 2022 11:42 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Good News! One JWST Picture Early!

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 10, 2022 11:23 PM UTC | Telescopes
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When did the Sun Blow Away the Solar Nebula?

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 10, 2022 10:49 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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Snooping on Alien Messages Passing Through the Solar System

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - July 09, 2022 09:24 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Most Outstanding Feature of the Solar System. It's Not What You Think

By kuingul-gmail - July 09, 2022 12:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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30,000,000 km/h Star, Flex from the JWST Team, Mystery of Quasars Solved

By kuingul-gmail - July 08, 2022 08:03 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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NASA Reveals What the First Pictures From Webb Will Be

By Nancy Atkinson - July 08, 2022 03:53 PM UTC | Telescopes
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Many Astronauts Never Recover all of their Bone Density after Returning to Earth

By Matthew Williams - July 08, 2022 02:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new study shows that astronauts do not recover all of their bone strength when they return to Earth, meaning that extended stays in space will cause your bones to age unnaturally!
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Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas

By Brian Koberlein - July 08, 2022 11:15 AM UTC | Black Holes
New research shows that distant quasars were born in the cold dark of turbulent gas.
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A Test Image From Webb Just Happens to be the Deepest Image Ever Taken of the Universe

By Nancy Atkinson - July 08, 2022 11:04 AM UTC | Cosmology
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Engineers Build a gun That can Fire Projectiles at 10 km/s, Simulating High-Speed Space Debris Impacts

By Matthew Williams - July 07, 2022 06:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A team of Canadian engineers have built a gun that will help space agencies test materials that could provide shielding against space debris!
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Here's the Final Shortlist for Astrophotographer of the Year 2022

By Nancy Atkinson - July 07, 2022 12:48 PM UTC | Observing
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A new LEGO Spacecraft to Vote for: China's Long March 5 With the Tianwen-1 That Flew to Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 07, 2022 09:01 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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One Star Flies Past the Milky Way's Black Hole at 3% the Speed of Light

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - July 06, 2022 10:34 PM UTC | Milky Way
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It Would Take About 100 Billion Years for Another Star to Pass Close Enough to Make the Solar System Unstable

By Matthew Williams - July 06, 2022 03:59 PM UTC | Stars
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers shows that our Solar System will not experience a close and disruptive stellar flyby for a very long time!
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Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - July 05, 2022 08:53 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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SpaceX Shares an Image of the Super Heavy Booster Bristling With 33 Newly Installed Raptor Engines

By Matthew Williams - July 05, 2022 05:20 PM UTC | Space Exploration
SpaceX has released new images that show the Starship and Superheavy prototypes with all their engines!
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We've Seen a Helicopter on Mars. Next, Sailplanes?

By Nancy Atkinson - July 05, 2022 01:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images "Almost Brought him to Tears." We'll see Them on July 12th

By Matthew Williams - July 03, 2022 03:17 PM UTC | Telescopes
The first images taken by James Webb will be released in a little more than a week! According to NASA, they are so moving that you may cry when you see them!
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The United States announces a stop to testing Anti-Satellite Weapons

By cvers - July 02, 2022 04:08 PM UTC | Space Policy
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Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power

By kuingul-gmail - July 01, 2022 08:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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The Solar System is Stable for at Least the Next 100,000 Years

By sjohnston - July 01, 2022 06:43 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one... Doesn't

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 30, 2022 08:36 PM UTC | Black Holes
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