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Mercury has Magnetic Poles that Drift Like Earth's
This Star Has Reached the End of its Life
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid deflection in the coming years.
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It Hasn't Rained on Mars for a Long Time, but These Sand Dunes Look Like Raindrops, and They're Filled with Chemicals Made in Water
A recent image from the MRO shows rows of olivine-rich dunes in the Copernicus Crater on Mars, a feature that is quite rare here on Earth.
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Thanks to Trump, We've Got a Better Idea of the Capabilities of US Surveillance Satellites
The Spaceline: an Elevator From the Earth to the Moon
A team of scientists recently proposed an alternative to a Space Elevator - the "Spaceline", a tether that extends from the lunar surface into Earth's gravity well.
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Elon Musks Says that his Next Starship Could be Twice as Big
According to Musk's latest tweet, SpaceX's next rocket could be twice as big (and eight times the volume) as the Starship and Super Heavy!
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Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
A 3D Printed Telescope: The Analog Sky Drifter
A unique 3d printed telescope named the Analog Sky Drifter may spark a revolution in amateur telescope making.
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Carnival of Space #626
By Continuously Watching the Moon, we Could Detect Interstellar Meteorites
In a new study, a pair Harvard scientists calculated how often interstellar objects could collide with our Moon, and how we might study them to learn more of what lies beyond our Solar System.
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Even Though it Hasn't Launched Yet, JUICE Took its First Images of Jupiter and its Moons
Bringing Mars To Earth. The Plans For a Mars Sample Return Mission
SpaceX Starship Hopper Prototype Makes its Highest Hop Test So Far!
SpaceX just completed the second hop test of their Starship Hopper prototype, bringing the company one step closer to full-scale tests and commercial missions to the Moon and Mars!
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Asteroid Ryugu is a "Fragile Rubble Pile"
There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth
According to a recent study presented at this year's Goldschmidt Geochemistry Congress, there may be exoplanets out there that are more habitable than Earth
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Upgraded ISS Now Has a 600 Megabit per Second Internet Connection
How Do We Settle on the Moon?
Astrobotic is Going to Use a Vulcan Rocket For its Lunar Lander in 2021
The commercial delivery company Astriobiotic will be working with the ULA to send payloads to the Moon for NASA beginning in 2021.
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Astronomers Image the Atmosphere of a Red Dwarf Planet for the First Time. Spoiler Alert, it's a Terrible Place to Live
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was able to study the surface of an exoplanet orbiting a nearby red dwarf star for the first time.
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