Universe Today
This is the Fireworks Galaxy. It's had ten Supernovae in the Last Century Alone
SpaceX Releases a Recap Video of their SN8 Making its Hop Test!
SpaceX just released a recap video of their SN8 making its first-ever high-altitude hop test. Soon enough, the SN9 will be doing the same!
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Winning Urban Farming Ideas for Mars!
The 2020 Mars City Design challenge inspired some truly innovative ideas for urban farming and living sustainably on Mars!
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These Bizarre Cloud Patterns are von Kármán's Vortices, Caused by the air Wrapping Around Tall Islands
Stellar Flares May Not Condemn a Planet's Habitability
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVI: What is the "Dark Forest" Hypothesis?
A recent addition to the list of possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox: nobody is broadcasting because they don't want to be found!
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New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old
A new measure of the cosmic microwave background supports an older universe, and raises more problems for cosmology.
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Big News for SpaceX: Static Fire Today, Hop Test This Weekend?
SpaceX conducted another successful static fire test today in advance of a hop test that could be happening later this week!
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There Should be a few Supernovae in the Milky Way Every Century, but we've Only Seen 5 in the Last 1000 Years. Why?
Japan to Launch 'Wooden Satellite' in 2023
What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.
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Here's the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next
Missing: Supermassive Black Hole With up to 100 BILLION Times the Mass of the Sun
Astronomers set a new Record and Find the Farthest Galaxy. Its Light Took 13.4 Billion Years to Reach us
The Interior of Enceladus Looks Really Great for Supporting Life
Chang'e-5 Brought Home 1.7 Kilograms of Lunar Samples
Astronomers Discover Hundreds of High-Velocity Stars, Many on Their Way Out of the Milky Way
Combining data from two of the largest databases in the world, an international team of astronomers was able to doubledthe number of known high-velocity stars
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Astronomers Improve Their Distance Scale for the Universe. Unfortunately, it Doesn't Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
Astronomers have made the cosmic distant ladder more accurate, but that has only made the mystery of cosmic expansion even worse.
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The Personnel of Space Force Will be Called Guardians
According to VP Mike Pence, personnel serving in the U.S. Space Force will henceforth be known as "Guardians"!
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Some of Hayabusa2's Samples are as Big as a Centimeter
Plans for a Mars Sample Return Mission Have Moved to the Next Stage
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, a joint effort between NASA and the ESA to bring samples of Mars back to Earth, just moved into the next phase of development!
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