Astronomers Think a Meteor Came from Outside the Solar System
Barfing Neutron Stars Reveal Their Inner Guts
You Could Travel Through a Wormhole, but it's Slower Than Going Through Space
A new study reveals that traveling through a wormhole may actually be possible, but don't count on it saving you any time!
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Ep. 527: Ancient Astronomy of the American Southwest
Carnival of Space #608
What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See? A Whole Bunch of Dust, That's What
The World's Biggest Aircraft - the Rocket-Launching Stratolaunch - Completes its First Test Flight
Stratolaunch recently conducted the first test flight of its air-carrier plane, the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world.
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Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are "Surprisingly Deep"
TESS Just Found its First Earth-Sized World
Astronomers Find a Chunk of a Comet Inside a Meteorite
Astro-Challenge: Spotting Slender Moons
Up for a challenge? Some of the toughest targets for a backyard observer involve little or no equipment at all. Northern hemisphere Spring brings with it one of our favorite astronomical pursuits: the first sighting of the extremely thin, waxing crescent Moon. This unique feat of visual athletics may be fairly straight forward... but it's tougher than you think. The angle of the evening ecliptic in the Spring is still fairly high for mid-northern latitudes, taking the Moon up and out of the weeds as a waxing crescent.
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Soviet/Russian Space Missions
Our Guide to Space's official page on Soviet and Russian space missions
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SpaceX's Starlink Constellation Construction Begins. 2,200 Satellites Will go up Over the Next 5 years
Musk recently announced that SpaceX will begin deploying the first batch of its internet satellites next year and continuing until 2024.
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Despite the Crash, SpaceIL is Going Back to the Moon with Beresheet 2
Curiosity has Finally Sampled a Clay-Rich Region on Mars
NASA Wants to Send a Low-Cost Mission to Explore Neptune's Moon Triton
A team of researchers from NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) recently proposed a low-cost mission to explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton.
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Weekly Space Hangout: Apr 17, 2019 - Dr. Dorothy Oehler Talks "No Methane on Mars?"
Carnival of Space #607
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