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SpaceX just launched 60 satellites for its Starlink Constellation. Internet service providers should be very worried.

By Matthew Williams - May 24, 2019 02:37 PM UTC | Space Policy
SpaceX just launched the first 60 satellites that will make up their Starlink broadband internet service provider.
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An Insulating Layer of Gas Could Keep a Liquid Ocean Inside Pluto

By Matthew Williams - May 23, 2019 04:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study led by Japanese researchers indicates that Pluto could have a subsurface ocean, provided there is an "insulating layer" beneath the ice.
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The Collision that Created the Moon Might Have Also Brought Water to the Early Earth

By Evan Gough - May 23, 2019 03:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Bizarre Star Could be the Result of Two White Dwarfs Merging Together

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2019 04:20 PM UTC | Stars
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Weekly Space Hangout: May 22, 2019 - Dr. Susan Bailey of the NASA TWINS Study

By susie - May 22, 2019 03:46 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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NASA has Picked the Companies That'll Help Build its Lunar Landers

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2019 01:27 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Don't Forget, Curiosity's Sister Rover is Flying to Mars in 2020

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2019 11:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science
The Mars 2020 mission is getting ever closer to the day when it will be launched to the Red Planet.
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Planetary Society's Light Sail 2 is Set to Launch on a Falcon Heavy Rocket Next Month

By Evan Gough - May 21, 2019 05:03 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Interview with Dennis E. Taylor, Author of the Bobiverse Trilogy

By Fraser Cain - May 21, 2019 03:43 PM UTC | Site News
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Chang'e-4 Lander and its Rover Have Turned up new Mysteries on the Moon's far side. The Moon's Mantle Blasted Onto the Surface?

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2019 03:40 PM UTC | Planetary Science
China's Chang'e-4 lunar mission recently gathered data that suggests that the impact that created the largest impact crater on the Moon could have blasted some of its mantle material onto the surface.
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Mars Odyssey Reveals Phobos Using THEMIS

By David Dickinson - May 21, 2019 09:45 AM UTC | Planetary Science
NASA's aging 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter recently snapped some unique views of the twin moons Phobos and Deimos, in an effort to better understand their texture and surface composition.
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Messier 86 - the NGC 4406 Elliptical Galaxy

By tammy-plotner - May 20, 2019 07:35 PM UTC | Extragalactic
Located in the constellation Virgo, about 54 million light years from Earth, is the elliptical galaxy known as Messier 86.
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Most of the Solar System Should be a Protected Wilderness. One-Eighth Left for Mining and Resource Exploitation

By Matthew Williams - May 20, 2019 07:04 PM UTC | Space Policy
A new study by an astrophysicist and a professor of ethics takes a look at the future of humanity in space, and recommends we set aside most of the Solar System aside as protected wilderness.
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Carnival of Space #612

By susie - May 20, 2019 03:09 PM UTC | Site News
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Can You Spot a Planetary Nebula from a Few Blurry Pixels? Astronomers Can - Here's How

By Paul Sutter - May 20, 2019 12:05 PM UTC | Stars
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Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes

By Matthew Williams - May 17, 2019 03:36 PM UTC | Astrobiology
In the ongoing search for intelligent life, a new study recommends that we look for signs of an advanced civilization harnessing the power of neutrinos to create a beacon.
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Small, Tough Planets can Survive the Death of Their Star

By Evan Gough - May 17, 2019 03:11 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? Black Holes May Reveal the Answer

By Paul Sutter - May 17, 2019 12:48 PM UTC | Black Holes
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Here's Where Beresheet Crashed into the Moon

By Evan Gough - May 16, 2019 04:50 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Today is the Highest Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 in Human History. 415 Parts Per Million. Last Time it Was This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole

By Evan Gough - May 16, 2019 03:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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