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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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Tidal Heating Could Make Exomoons Much More Habitable (and Detectable)

By Matthew Williams - June 30, 2022 06:50 PM UTC | Exoplanets
A new study shows how the study of tidal heating in exomoons could greatly expand the search for life in the Universe.
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Red Supergiant Stars Bubble and Froth so Much That Their Position in the Sky Seems to Dance Around

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 30, 2022 05:59 PM UTC | Stars
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This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems

By Evan Gough - June 30, 2022 04:14 PM UTC | Stars
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The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 30, 2022 08:50 AM UTC | Physics
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A Dying Star's Last Act was to Destroy all Its Planets

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 29, 2022 07:26 PM UTC | Stars
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The Rings of Uranus and Neptune Could Help map Their Interiors

By Andy Tomaswick - June 29, 2022 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images

By Evan Gough - June 29, 2022 03:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Cygnus Boosts the International Space Station for the First Time. NASA Can Now Potentially Keep the Station Aloft Without Russia's Progress Spacecraft

By Nancy Atkinson - June 29, 2022 12:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Record 'Fast Nova' Flares Over a Single Day

By David Dickinson - June 29, 2022 10:17 AM UTC | Stars
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
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A Star has Grown Spiral Arms

By Nancy Atkinson - June 28, 2022 06:19 PM UTC | Stars
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Curiosity Finds Life-Crucial Carbon in Mars Rocks

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 28, 2022 06:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Rocket Lab Launches NASA's CAPSTONE Mission to the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - June 28, 2022 04:08 PM UTC | Missions
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Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried up From Down Below

By Evan Gough - June 28, 2022 01:37 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way

By Andy Tomaswick - June 27, 2022 10:54 PM UTC | Milky Way
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We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves

By Matthew Williams - June 27, 2022 03:48 PM UTC | Black Holes
A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes.
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Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 09:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Giant Sunspot AR3038 has Doubled in Size and is Pointed Right at Earth. Could be Auroras Coming

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 06:31 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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Remember That Rocket That was Going to Crash Into the Moon? Scientists Think They've Found the Crater

By sjohnston - June 26, 2022 06:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Supernovae Were Discovered in all These Galaxies

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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VY Canis Majoris is Dying, and Astronomers are Watching

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 03:29 PM UTC | Stars
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NASA Funds the Development of a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon That Would Last for 10 Years

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 10:57 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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