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NASA is Going to Test 25 New Technologies in Upcoming Aircraft, Balloon and Sub-Orbital Rocket Flights
Astronomers Find Cyanide Gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov, but Don't Panic Like it's 1910
An international team of astronomers recently obtained spectra from the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, which confirmed the presence of cyanide gas.
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Hayabusa 2 Has Sent its Last Rover to Ryugu
Earth, Solar System, Milky Way. Are they Getting More or Less Massive Over Time?
According to a study by The Milky Way Halo Research Group, we now know how quickly the Milky Way is losing and gaining new material - which is key to understanding how it changes over time.
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Here's NASA's New Plan to Get InSight's Temperature Probe Into Mars
Juno is Afraid to Death of Jupiter's Shadow. So it Fired its Thruster for Over 10 Hours to Avoid It.
InSight Has Already Detected 21 Marsquakes
China's Lander Successfully Grew Some Cotton Plants on the Moon. Fruit Flies and Potatoes Didn't Fare So Well
Exoplanet Orbits its Star Every 18 Hours. The Quickest Hot-Jupiter Ever Found
The Next Generation Transit Survey recently discovered a hot-Jupiter with the shortest orbital period observed to date, just 18 hours!
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Nine Astronauts from Four Different Space Agencies are on the International Space Station Right Now
Weekly Space Hangout: October 2, 2019 - Geoff Notkin, President of the National Space Society
Elon Musk Shows us What's Inside the Starship
Elon Musk recently upload a video that shows that the interior of the Starship's prototype cargo bay.
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India's Crashed Lander is In This Picture, Somewhere
What Will It Take To Feed A Million People On Mars?
A Red Dwarf Star Has a Jupiter-Like Planet. So Massive it Shouldn't Exist, and Yet, There It Is
Carnival of Space #631
Confirmed. Fossils That Formed 3.5 billion Years Ago, Really are Fossils. The Oldest Evidence of Life Found So Far
Tracking Twilight: 'Purple Sunset Effect' Seen Worldwide
Has twilight looked at little… mauve to you as of late? The effect is subtle, but noticeable on a clear evening. Sunsets are always colorful events, as the Sun's rays shine through a thicker layer of the atmosphere at an oblique angle, scattering out at longer, redder wavelengths.
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Musk Presents the Orbital Starship Prototype. Flights will Begin in Six Months
Coinciding with SpaceX's 17th anniversary, Elon Musk provided the latest updates on the design of the Starship and Super Heavy launch system.
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New Technique for Estimating the Mass of a Black Hole
A Russian-led team of astronomers has developed a method for estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole by looking at its powerful jets.
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Mice That Spend a Month in Space Were Able to Reproduce Once They Got Back to Earth
Astronomers Have Found a Place With Three Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Around Each Other
WFIRST Gets its Coronagraph, to Block the Light of Stars and Reveal Their Planets
The coronagraph instrument, which will help NASA's WFIRST mission to search for exoplanets, just passed a major milestone!
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Shape-shifting Robots Like These Could Be Just What We Need to Explore Titan
Astronauts Explore Caves on Earth, Learning the Skills They'll Need for the Moon and Mars
This Summer's Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA's NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks
Weekly Space Hangout: September 25, 2019 - Seth Lockman & Aaron Lockman: The Astronomy Brothers
Lockheed Wins the Contract to Build Six More Orion Capsules
NASA and Lockheed Martin have finalized their contract for the delivery of the 6 to 12 Orion capsules that will take astronauts back to the Moon.
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Messier 92 - the NGC 6341 Globular Cluster
Located in the Hercules constellation, roughly 26,700 light-years from Earth, is the globular cluster known as Messier 92.
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SpaceX Starship Gets Some Fins
Elon Musk has provided another update on the construction of the Starship prototype, which now includes steerable tail fins.
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Better Than Earth? Are There Superhabitable Worlds In The Milky Way?
Planet Mars, From Pole to Pole
Carnival of Space #630
Elliptical Galaxy Messier 110 Has a Surprising Core of Hot Blue Stars
Venus Could Have Supported Life for Billions of Years
A new study by a team of NASA scientists indicates that Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (and still would be today) were it not for all the resurfacing!
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Rosetta Saw Collapsing Cliffs and Other Changes on 67P During its Mission
Hayabusa 2 has one Last Lander it's Going to Throw at Ryugu
JAXA recently released photos of their Hayabusa2 mission deploying target markers to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
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Enceladus Causes Snowfall On Other Moons of Saturn
Musk Shares the Latest Progress on the Starship Prototypes
Elon Musk just released new images that showcase the progress being made on the Starship prototypes
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A Distant Asteroid Collision Gave Earthly Biodiversity An Ancient Boost
Yes, This is Actually the Shadow of Io Passing Across the Surface of Jupiter.
Want To Explore Mars? Send Humans To The Moons Of Mars First: Phobos And Deimos
Io's Largest Volcano, Loki, Erupts Every 500 Days. Any Day Now, It'll Erupt Again.
Weekly Space Hangout: September 18, 2019 - Dr. Georgiana Kramer of PSI: Space Dew and Superheroes
This Astrophotographer Makes the World Turn and the Sky Stand Still
Metallic Asteroids Might Have Had Volcanoes Erupting Molten Iron. That's So Metal
The Most Massive Neutron Star has been Found. It's ALMOST the Most Massive Neutron Star That's Even Possible
Could We Intercept Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 Borisov?
A recent study by members of i4is shows how we could intercept future interstellar visitors using existing technology.
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Physicists Don't Know the Mass of a Neutrino, But Now They Know it's No Larger Than 1 Electron Volt
Carnival of Space #628-629