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Earth Gains 5,200 Tons of Dust From Space Every Year
The Same Technology Could Search for Microbes in Mars Rocks or Under the ice on Europa
NASA's SHERLOC and WATSON, two spectrometers designed to look for biosignatures, could answer if there's life on Mars on inside the Solar System's icy moons.
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Trojan Mission Lucy Tested its Solar Panels for the First Time. Those Things are Huge
Gaia Finds 12 Examples of Einstein Crosses; Galaxies Being Gravitationally Lensed so we see Them Repeated 4 Times
After examining data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of researchers found 12 more examples of the rare phenomenon known as "Einstein Crosses."
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Brown Dwarfs can Spin so Fast They Almost Tear Themselves Apart
Some brown dwarfs rotate so fast that they are flattened spheres. If they rotate any faster they might fly apart.
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OSIRIS-REx Did One Last Close Flyby of Asteroid Bennu. It's Almost Time to Come Home
How's the Weather in Jezero Crater? According to Perseverance: Cold
The Perseverance rover just provided its first Martian weather report (it was cold!), which could help inform future missions involving astronauts.
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Primordial Asteroids That Never Suffered Massive Collisions all Seem to be Larger Than 100 km. Why?
The early asteroids had a similar size, and this could be due to turbulence in the early solar system.
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What Would Raindrops be Like on Other Worlds?
Jupiter Could Make an Ideal Dark Matter Detector
Perseverance Takes a Selfie With Ingenuity. It's Almost Time to fly
What are the Best Ways to Search for Technosignatures?
An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Through the Gravitational Lensing of a Gamma-ray Burst
An intermediate mass black hole was discovered by its chance alignment with a gamma ray burst.
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Perseverance Captured This Image of a "Rainbow" on Mars, but it's just a Lens Flare in the Rover's Camera
Mars Helicopter Survives its First Night on Mars is Getting Ready to Fly
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter survived its first night on the Martian surface and is preparing for its first test flight.
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Here's a Strange Rock That Perseverance Shot With its Laser
Lunar Gateway Will Maintain its Orbit With a 6 kW ion Engine
The ionic propulsion system that will allow the Lunar Gateway to orbit the Moon just got its first test, and passed with flying colors
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Uranus X-Rays are Probably Reflected Sunlight, but There Could be Another Source as Well
Is Dark Matter Responsible for Extra Gamma Rays Coming From the Center of the Milky Way?
There are new Stars Forming Near the Core of the Milky Way Despite the Harsh Environment
