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NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources on the Moon
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Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
The Milky Way is Already Starting to Digest the Magellanic Clouds, Starting With Their Protective Halos of Hot Gas
Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
A beautiful picture of Saturn's heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month!
Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end of October!
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Did Scientists Just Find Signs of Life on Venus?
Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See
Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
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Australian Telescope Just Scanned 10 million Stars For Any Sign of Extraterrestrial Signals. No sign.
An Update on the Damage to the Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow!
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China's New Reusable Spaceplane Lands After 2 Days in Space
China's mysterious reusable spaceplane recently launched and has returned to Earth after spending two days in space.
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Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IX: What is the Brief Window Hypothesis?
In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have a brief window within which to communicate.
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Vera Rubin's Monster 3200-Megapixel Camera Takes its First Picture (in the Lab)
China is Building a Floating Spaceport for Rocket Launches
China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets in the near future!
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A Sunspot, Revealed in Incredible Detail by Europe's Newly Upgraded GREGOR Telescope
Jupiter Probably Has 600 Small, Irregular Moons
Finally! A Solution to Deal With Sticky Lunar Dust
Weekly Space Hangout: September 9, 2020 – Dr. Katie Mack Discusses "The End of Everything"
Bennu is Constantly Getting Sandblasted by Tiny Meteoroids
