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The Surprising Discovery of Ceramic Chips Inside Meteorites Means There Were Wild Temperature Variations In the Early Solar System
A Combined Map of Almost 15,000 Dust Storms on Mars
A Cluster of Black Holes Found Inside a Globular Cluster of Stars
Globular clusters can be home to lots of stellar-mass black holes, rather than a single intermediate mass black hole.
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NASA has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy
According to a recent statement, NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch the core elements of the Gateway to the Moon with the Falcon Heavy by 2024.
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Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
How Old is the Ice at Mars' North Pole?
Using data from the MRO's HiRISE camera, a team of researchers from UC Boulder have provided a starting point for reconstructing the history of Mars' climate.
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ESA's Solar Orbiter 'Hides' Behind the Sun
A deep-space mission is about to pull a 'vanishing act,' through mid-February, as the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (affectionately known as 'SolO' to mission controllers) makes a crucial pass behind the Sun.
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Quantum Theory Proposes That Cause and Effect Can Go In Loops
Perseverance Will Make Sure it has a Safe Landing
Possible Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone at Alpha Centauri
It's Starting to Look Like Super-Earths Really are Just Great big Terrestrial Planets
New research shows there is a divide between how gas planets and rocky worlds form.
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Three Storms Have Dumped Snow on Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
Super-Earth Conditions Simulated in the Lab to Discover if They're Habitable
Researchers recently simulated what geological conditions would be like on Super-Earths, and found that a few known exoplanets are worth checking out!
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InSight is Going to Try and "Hear" Perseverance Land on Mars From 3,452 km Away
February 7th Was the Start of a New Year on Mars
Here's the Best Place for Explorers to Harvest Martian Ice
A New Technique to Find Cold Gas Streams That Might Make up the Missing (Normal) Matter in the Universe
Plasma Thruster Could Dramatically Cut Down Flight Times to the Outer Solar System
A New Supernova Remnant Found from an Exploding White Dwarf Star
Emirates Mars Mission Arrives at the Red Planet Today!
The UAE Hope mission arrives at Mars today, kickng off a two year study of the Martian atmosphere. This is the first mission mounted by an Arab nation and offers inspiration for the future!
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