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Not all the Earth's Water Came From Comets
SpaceX is going to build a mini-BFR to launch on a Falcon 9
According to Musk's latest update, SpaceX will be conducting a test flight of their BFR system next year using a miniature version of the spacecraft.
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Ancient Star Found that's Only Slightly Younger than the Universe Itself
Thanks to a team from John Hopkins University, a star was recently discovered that is 13.5 billion years old, almost as old as the Universe itself!
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Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here's where it's going to touch down
After careful consideration, NASA has selected the location where the InSight lander will set down and begin surveying the interior of Mars
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That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous Journey
Carnival of Space #585
Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 7, 2018 - Colin Stuart 's "How to Live in Space"
We Could Build a Powerful Laser and Let Any Civilizations Within 20,000 Light-Years Know We're Here. Although... Should We?
This Star Killed its Companion and is now Escaping the Milky Way
Astronomers Get as Close as They Can to Seeing the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Thanks to the GRAVITY collaboration, astronomers have made the most detailed observations of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way to date.
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Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover
At the fourth Landing Site Workshop in October, NASA held a vote on where the Mars 2020 rover will land once it reaches the Red Planet
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Exoplanets Will Need Both Continents and Oceans to Form Complex Life
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that exoplanets with too much water or too much landmass may not be a good place to look for life.
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 504: Radar, Lidar, and Sonar
An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope
The ESO has broken ground on the Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest and most-advanced telescope once it is complete in 2024.
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Timelapse Shows the Glowing Wreckage from Supernova 1987a Expanding Outward Over 30 Years
Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 31, 2018 - David Dickinson
It's Over For Kepler. The Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever Built is Finally out of Fuel and Has Just Been Shut Down.
After eight years of service and thousands of exoplanet discoveries, the Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired.
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This is What Icebergs Look Like at the End of Their Lives. This One's 18 Years Old
Parker Solar Probe Became the Closest Thing We've Ever Sent to the Sun. And it's Just Getting Started.
Yes! Hubble is Back in Operation
After a malfunction with one of its gyros placed it in safe mode, NASA has announced that Hubble is now back online!
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