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Hard Not to Get a Little Teary Watching this Video from SpaceX About the Falcon Heavy Launch
In honor of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX has released an inspiring video of the event that…
James Webb is Enduring its Final Stage of Testing Before it Ships off for Kourou, French Guiana
The James Webb Space Telescope just entered the final phase of integration and testing before being shipped off to French…
Scientists Propose An Asteroid Nuke Mission To Save Earth From Potential Destruction
NASA's HAMMER (Hyper-velocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response) is a plan to protect us from asteroids, either with kinetic…
Messier 67 – the King Cobra Open Star Cluster
Located between 2610 and 2930 light years from Earth is the King Cobra Cluster (aka. Messier 67), one of the…
Could There be Alien Life Right Beneath the Surface of Icy Worlds Like Enceladus and Europa?
A new study conducted with the support of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has theorized that life may exist on the…
Jupiter’s Atmospheric Bands Go Surprisingly Deep
Three new studies have been released based on Juno data that have revealed new things about Jupiter's atmospheric bands and…
Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Could Keep Satellites in Low Earth Orbit for Years
For the first time, team of ESA scientists recently developed and tested an air-breathing electric thruster, which could open the…
Gaze in Wonder at Jupiter’s Mysterious Geometric Polar Storms
Each of Jupiter's poles is a beautiful, geometric arrangement of Earth-sized cyclones. In the north, 8 storms surround one central…
Hubble Sees a Huge Dust Cloud Around a Newly Forming Star
The Hubble has detected a massive dust cloud 150 billion miles across around the young star HR 4796A.
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…