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Gravitational interactions can drive comets and asteroids from Jupiter out to Neptune in just 10 years
The RAVN-X is a new Autonomous Aircraft Designed to Launch Small Satellites
The latest addition to the NewSpace industry is the Aevum RAVN-X, an automonous aircraft that can air-launch satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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We're About to Find Out How Well Biomining Works in Space
You Can See the Spot Where Lava Broke Through the Wall of a Martian Crater and Began Filling it Up
Catch an Awe-Inspiring Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21st
The solar system's two massive gas giant planets pair up at dusk on December 21st, with a rare conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
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If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby exoplanets - like Proxima b!
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SpaceShipTwo's First Powered Test Flight Since Move to New Mexico Fizzles Out
Is There a way to Detect Strange Quark Stars, Even Though They Look Almost Exactly Like White Dwarfs?
If quark matter stars exist, they could look like white dwarfs that are unusually small.
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Comet Records From 1240 Accurately Date When a Byzantine Princess Died
Why 2020 is a Great Year for the Geminid Meteors
Got clear skies? Then bundle up: the Geminid meteors—one of the best, sure-fire annual meteor showers—peaks this weekend… and near a New Moon, to boot.
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Black Holes Gain new Powers When They Spin Fast Enough
Fast spinning black holes could have features different from those predicted by general relativity.
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That's no Asteroid, it's a Rocket Booster
Follow-up observations by NASA scientists has confirmed that the mystery object 2020 SO is indeed a relic of the early Space Age.
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Weekly Space Hangout: December 9, 2020 – Casey Dreier: Are Changes Coming to NASA/US Space Policy?
SpaceX's SN8 Starship Soars and Belly-Flops, but Fails to Stick the Landing. Oh Well, Bring on the SN9!
SpaceX launched the SN8 Starship prototype early today and while it failed to stick the landing, the flight was an overall success!
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Heard of Mini-Neptunes and gas-Dwarfs? Here's a new one: sub-Earths
A new study suggests that planets smaller than Earth form much later than large planets, which could point to a rare Earth.
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A Company is Hoping to Race Rovers on the Moon
You're Going to Need a Bigger Drill. The Best Place for Life on Mars is Deep, Deep Underground
New research has indicated that subterranean lakes could exist on Mars thanks to geothermal heating, which is where any life there could be found today.
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Glycine Can Form In Interstellar Clouds
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XIII: What is the "Ocean Worlds" Hypothesis?
Could it be that we haven't heard from any aliens because theyre mainly space whales living live inside icy bodies with interior oceans?
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Iceberg A-68A is Turning. Will it Miss South Georgia Island After All?
