The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new era of research.
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The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to the Deep Space Gateway, scheduled for construction over the next decade.
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A new study by members of the New Horizons team has provided an explanation for Pluto's mysteries "bladed terrain".
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A new study by a team led by the Smithsonian Institution has cast doubt on there being subsurface ice on one of Mars most-explored regions, but could also help point the way to other deposits
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A new study by a team of international astronomers studies the newly-discovery Gaia 1 star cluster, resulting in new estimates on its age and composition
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Located about 2300 light-years from Earth, in the direction of the Lyra constellation, is the planetary nebula known as Messier 57 (aka. the Ring Nebula)
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A new study by an international team of scientists indicates how future missions to Mars should look for a rare element which could indicate that life once existed there
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An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like a comet in in the Main Asteroid Belt.
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NASA is working on developing a space station in a cis-lunar orbit that will serve as the jumping off point to exploring the Solar System; it's known as the Deep Space Gateway.
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The Hyperloop One Global Challenge recently wrapped up, and one of the winners was a team who proposed building a line between Toronto and Montreal
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At the European Planetary Science Conference in Riga this week, scientists urged Europe to remain committed to the AIDA asteroid mission
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA's OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to snatch a soil sample from a pristine asteroid and return it to Earth for research analysis, the probe is speeding back home for a swift slingshot around our home planet on Friday Sept. 22 to gain a gravity assist speed boost required to complete its journey to the carbon rich asteroid Bennu and back.
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A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every passing second in the observable Universe
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A new study from Brown University reveals that there may be a lot more surface ice on Mercury than previously thought
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