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Astronauts Could Use the ScanMars Device to Search for Water on Mars
Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait... That's Not the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe recently collected its first-light data in order to test its instruments, and snapped some beautiful pictures of the cosmos.
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Astronomers find Planet Vulcan - 40 Eridani A - Right Where Star Trek Predicted it.
Inside the Crust of Neutron Stars, There's Nuclear Pasta; the Hardest Known Substance in the Universe
A new study has shown that "nuclear pasta", which exists beneath crust of a neutron star, is the strongest material is the Universe.
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Ice Volcanoes on Ceres are Still Actively Blasting out Material
Narrowing Down the Mass of the Milky Way
Using information from Gaia's second data release, a team of scientists have made refined measurements of the mass of the Milky Way.
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Last Year's Gravitational Wave Detections Failed to Provide a Hint of Any Extra Spatial Dimensions
In a new study, astrophysicists used the gravitational waves from last year's kilonova event to determine if the Universe has additional dimensions.
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Carnival of Space #579
How to Know Once and For All if the Universe Began With a Bang or a Bounce
In a recent study, a team of Harvard University scientists presented a new means of ruling out alternative explanations for how our Universe began.
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Weekly Space Hangout: Sept 15, 2018: Live from AC500 Weekend!
Heralding the 2018 Harvest Moon
Following the Moon lately? The up and coming Full Moon is the most famous of them all, as we approach the Harvest Moon for 2018.
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Elon Musk Reveals who the First Lunar Tourist Will Be
From SpaceX's headquarters in California, Elon Musk announced who will be the first lunar tourist to hitch a ride aboard the company's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)
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To Avoid Vision Problems in Space, Astronauts Will Need Some Kind of Artificial Gravity
A new study by an international team of researchers has indicated the need for artificial gravity to mitigate the effects of microgravity on astronauts' eyesight.
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 500: 500th Episode!
The Closest Planet Ever Discovered Outside the Solar System Could be Habitable With a Dayside Ocean
A new NASA-led study shows that Proxima b could support the existence of an ocean on its dayside, which means it could still be habitable.
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Sunspot Solar Observatory has been Shut Down by the FBI and Nobody's Saying Why
The Sunspot Solar Observatory has been temporarily shut down and evacuated due to a security threat.
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New Video Shows Construction Beginning on the World's Largest Telescope
A new video released by the ESO illustrates the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest telescope once it is completed.
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India Shows off the Spacesuit its Astronauts Will be Using in 2022
At the recent Bengaluru Space Expo in India, the ISRO unveiled the spacesuit that it's astronauts will wear during the countries first crewed mission to space.
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Until We Get Another Mission at Saturn, We're Going to Have to Make Do with these Pictures Taken by Hubble
A new Hubble image of Saturn and six of its Moons reminds us how visually stunning Saturn is.
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Was This Huge River Delta on Mars the Place Where its Oceans Finally Disappeared?
A new study has offered the first definitive proof that Mars' northern lowlands were once covered in a liquid water ocean.
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