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A brand new magnetar found, it's only 240 years old
Do Hot Jupiters Form Close in, or Do They Migrate? A Newly-Discovered Planet Might Help Answer This
The recent discovery of a very young gas giant could offer clues about how "Hot Jupiters" form and whether or not they migrate over time.
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Deep Down in Ocean Worlds, it's Difficult to Tell Where the Oceans End and the Rock Begins
More Evidence that Europa's Oceans Could be Habitable
Astronaut Drops a Mirror During a Spacewalk. Now There's Another Piece of Space Junk
The Bare Minimum Number of Martian Settlers? 110
Canada is Going to be Building Canadarm3 for the Artemis Missions
A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in the Solar System, from Venus to Uranus.
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Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars
As the only Mars analog environment in the Southern hemisphere, Habitat Marte is conducting research that will allow humans to live on Mars someday
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Do We Now Understand Why the Moon's Near and Far Sides Look So Dramatically Different?
Weekly Space Hangout: June 24, 2020 — Elizabeth Howell & Nicholas Booth, The Search for Life on Mars
NASA Changes its Mind. It Will be Using Previously Flown Crew Dragons and Falcon 9
NASA has announced that starting next year, SpaceX will be able to reuse its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 boosters to send astronauts to the ISS.
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Another Collection of Newly Forming Planetary Systems. This Time from the Gemini Planet Imager
How an Advanced Civilization Could Exploit a Black Hole for Nearly Limitless Energy
Last Year's Total Solar Eclipse on Earth, Seen From the Moon
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Calculate the Number of Alien Civilizations in the Milky Way for Yourself.
A new online tool created by a team of physicists allows users to calculate how many alien civilization could be out there for themselves!
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Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars
New Hubble Photos of Planetary Nebulae
Astronomers Just Detected Either the Least Massive Black Hole, or a Strange and Massive Neutron Star
Somewhere around 2.5 solar masses is the line between black holes and neutron stars. Now we've found an object right on the edge.
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