Universe Today
Hubble Releases a New Image of Neptune, Revealing a Rapidly Shifting Storm
Astronomers Capture a Direct Image of a Brown Dwarf
ESA is Working on its own Reusable Booster Stage
As part of their Themis Program, the ESA is developing reusable rocket technology.
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Asteroids Crashing Into Dead Stars are Helping Explain Where the Universe's Missing Lithium Went
Brines Could be Present on the Surface of Mars for up to 12 Hours, Never for a Full day
New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers
A team of astronomers set out to disprove modified gravity, and ended up confirming it instead.
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To Help Trudge Through the Snow, the Chang'e-5 Recovery Team Wore Powered Exoskeletons
Even the Outside of Hayabusa 2's Sample Capsule has Asteroid Debris on it
According to statements made by JAXA, the samples returned by the Hayabusa 2 mission included black sand and gases obtained from the asteroid itself.
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One of the Largest, Most Complete Einstein Rings Ever Seen. Astronomers Call it the "Molten Ring"
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XV: What is the Percolation Hypothesis?
Could it be that the reason we haven't met any aliens is because interstellar colonization simply isn't practical? Not exactly good news for us!
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A Single Filament of Gas Has Been Discovered That Stretches 50 Million Light-Years
Astronomy 2021: Top Events for the Coming Year
Eclipses, meteor showers, occultations and more.
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A Very Interesting Radio Signal was Just Detected Coming from Proxima Centauri
If a Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause
A Proposal for a Neutrino Detection Array Spanning 200,000 Square Kilometers
A Canadian Astronaut Will be on Artemis 2, Making it the Second Nation to Send Humans Into Deep Space (but not Walk on the Moon)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have announced that a Canadian astronaut will fly as part of the Artemis II mission.
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If Axions Explain Dark Matter, it Could be Possible to Detect Them Nearby Neutron Stars
Astronomers look for dark matter in the radio signals of neutron stars. If found it could solve two problems in fundamental physics.
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NASA Announces its Artemis Astronauts: 18 People Training to Fly to the Moon
NASA has announced the names of the 18 astronauts that make up the Artemis Team. A select few, and some international partners, will be going back to the Moon!
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China's Planning to Launch a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory in the 2030s: TianQin. Here's how it'll Stack up Against LISA
This galaxy took only 500 million years to form
