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There's a flash of ultraviolet just as a white dwarf is exploding as a supernova
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IV: What is the Rare Earth Hypothesis?
Looking to answer the question of "where are all the aliens," some scientists have suggested that planets like Earth might actually be very rare.
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A Group of Meteorites All Came From a Destroyed Planetesimal With a Magnetic Core
Thanks to Cosmic Radiation, There Could be Life on Mars, Just a Couple of Meters Under the Surface
There Might Be an Entire Orbit, Filled with Asteroids that Came from Outside the Solar System
Some asteroids orbit the Sun in highly inclined orbits, and they might be aliens to our solar system.
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Russia Just Tested an Anti-Satellite Weapon
Here's the New Space Force Logo
Saturn-sized Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of Another Star. The First Planet Completely Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
This is What an Air-Breathing Electric Thruster's Intake Would Look Like
According to Globular Clusters, the Universe is 13.35 Billion Years Old
A new study by an international team of astronomers and cosmologists has used globular clusters to come up with new estimate for the age of the Universe.
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Take a Flight Through the Most Detailed 3D Map of the Universe Ever Made
Gamma-Ray Telescopes Can Measure the Diameters of Other Stars
Four gamma ray telescopes have used a new method of interferometry to measure the size of two stars.
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Hubble Shows Saturn in the Middle of its Summer
Astronauts Come Back to Earth on August 2nd, Completing the Full Crew Dragon Test
On Sunday, August 2nd, astronauts Bog and Doug will return from the ISS, thus completing NASA's first crewed mission from US soil in almost a decade.
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Radishes Can Likely Grow in Lunar Regolith
The Moons of Uranus Are Fascinating Enough On Their Own That We Should Send a Flagship Mission Out There
What Cracked the Earth's Outer Shell and Started its Plate Tectonics?
The Moon is an Ideal Spot for a Gravitational Wave Observatory
A prestigious pair of astronomers have published a paper recommending that a gravitational wave observatory be built on the far side of the Moon.
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800 Million Years Ago, it Was Raining Asteroids on the Earth and Moon
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" III: What is the Great Filter?
In 1996, economist/futurist Robin Hanson proposed a possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: there's a "Great Filter" that prevents intelligent life from becoming advanced.
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Dust Seen Streaming Out of Namibia Into the Atlantic Ocean
Wow! An Actual Picture of Multiple Planets Orbiting a Sunlike Star
SpaceX Finally Catches Both Halves of a Falcon 9 Fairing
SpaceX achieved another milestone when the payload fairings used for the ANASIS-II mission were both caught by ships at sea with nets!
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Astronomers are Starting to Find Planets in Much Longer Orbits. Cooler, More Habitable Planets
It Looks Like There are Still Active Volcanoes on Venus
Organic Matter Could Have Delivered Earth's Water
A ring of high-energy particles surrounding a black hole suddenly disappeared
Review: Unistellar's New eVscope
There's no finder, and often no eyepiece… and 'goto' is as simple as the push of a virtual button. Welcome to the new generation of smartscopes. The new crop of telescopes promise to put the Universe and the night sky at your fingertips, or at least, on your smartphone screen.
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A Black Hole Popping Out of a Traversable Wormhole Should Give Off a Very Specific Signal in Gravitational Waves
Supercomputer Simulation Shows a Supernova 300 Days After it Explodes
They're In! The First Images From ESA's Solar Orbiter
James Webb Completes a Comprehensive Systems Test for the First Time
The James Webb Space Telescope just passed the critical Comprehensive Systems Test (CST), bringing it a step closer to its Oct. 2021 launch date!
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A Neptune-class exoplanet has been found with its atmosphere stripped away
Roman Space Telescope and SOFIA Get Their Funding Restored... Again
A Star had a Partial Supernova and Kicked Itself Into a High-Speed Journey Across the Milky Way
Mount Everest, Seen from Space!
Astronomers Do the Math to Figure Out Exactly When Johannes Vermeer Painted this, More than 350 Years Ago
What Shuts Down a Galaxy's Star Formation?
A new study finds that while black holes drive the formation of galaxies, they are also what kills them in the end.
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The Moon Might Have Formed a Little Later than Originally Believed
A new study indicates that the Moon is actually younger than we thought, and wasn't finished forming until the Earth's core was finished too.
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Curiosity Is Going To Spend Its Summer Driving Around a Dangerous Sandy Region on Mars
Supernovae shockwaves aren't spherical
Do the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Atmospheres?
A new study takes a hard look at the TRAPPIST-1 system to determine if its seven exoplanets could have viable atmospheres - with encouraging results!
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A Stellar Stream of Stars, Stolen from Another Galaxy
White dwarfs are a big source of carbon in the Universe
Amazing Images of Comet F3 NEOWISE From Around the World
Just. Wow. If you're like us, your space-feed has been inundated with some pretty spectacular images of Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE as of late. F3 NEOWISE broke from the pack of good binocular comets for 2020 early this month, to become one of the best northern hemisphere comets in a generation.
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Instead of Going Straight to Mars, Astronauts Should Make a Slingshot Past Venus First
More Details On NASA's VERITAS Mission, Which Could Go to Venus
15 Different Ideas for Rovers That Could Explore Venus
NASA just announced the winners of it's "Exploring Hell Challenge" with HeroX, an incentive competition designed to inspire designs for a clockwork Venus rover.
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AI Upscales Apollo Lunar Footage to 60 FPS
How Would We Do Surgery in Space?
