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The Universe is Brighter Than we Thought

By Matthew Williams - December 24, 2022 03:25 PM UTC | Cosmology
At the edge of the Solar System, New Horizons has taken new light measurements of the cosmos to get a sense of its total population.
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Is the Milky Way... Normal?

By sjohnston - December 23, 2022 09:52 PM UTC | Milky Way
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Anti-Helium Generated in the Large Hadron Collider can Help in the Search for Dark Matter

By Matthew Williams - December 23, 2022 05:58 PM UTC | Physics
Researchers from CERN's ALICE Collaboration have come up with a new way to search for Dark Matter: look for anti-helium-3 particles!
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Webb's New Image Reveals a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation

By Evan Gough - December 23, 2022 10:50 AM UTC | Extragalactic
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Scientists Investigate Potential Regolith Origin on Uranus' Moon, Miranda

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - December 22, 2022 04:48 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole. It Didn't End Well

By Evan Gough - December 22, 2022 02:50 PM UTC | Black Holes
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Perseverance Places its First Sample on the Surface of Mars. One Day This Will be in the Hands of Scientists on Earth

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 22, 2022 02:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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NASA Just Tested a new Engine That Will Launch Artemis V and Beyond

By Matthew Williams - December 21, 2022 07:33 PM UTC | Missions
NASA just conducted a hot fire test of the refurbished RS-25 engines that will take astronauts back to the Moon!
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This Will Probably Be InSight's Last Picture Before it Runs Out of Power Forever

By Evan Gough - December 21, 2022 06:48 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Webb Stares Deeply Into the Universe, Showing How Galaxies Assemble

By Evan Gough - December 21, 2022 05:20 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Astronomers Scanned 12 Planets for Alien Signals While They Were in Front of Their Stars

By Matthew Williams - December 21, 2022 03:43 PM UTC | Astrobiology
New research by the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen scanned twelve planets for signs of radio signals when they passed in front of their stars.
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What Kind of an Impact did DART Have on Dimorphos? The Science Results are Here

By Matthew Williams - December 21, 2022 02:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science
NASA has released the preliminary analysis of the DART mission's impact (literally) on Dimorphos!
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Comet Impacts Could Have Brought the Raw Ingredients for Life to Europa's Ocean

By Evan Gough - December 21, 2022 10:48 AM UTC | Astrobiology
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For the First Time, Astronomers Spot Stars in Galaxies that Existed Just 1 Billion Years After the Big Bang

By Matthew Williams - December 20, 2022 03:22 PM UTC | Extragalactic
Using data from the JWST, an international team of astronomers have made the first observations of stars in quasars that existed 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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We Could Spread Life to the Milky Way With Comets. But Should We?

By Evan Gough - December 20, 2022 01:37 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets

By Matthew Williams - December 19, 2022 07:14 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system.
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Giant Exoplanet is Spiraling Inward to its Doom

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 19, 2022 05:57 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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JWST Sees Furious Star Formation in a Stellar Nursery

By Evan Gough - December 19, 2022 02:10 PM UTC | Stars
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Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Search for Warp Drive Signatures

By Matthew Williams - December 19, 2022 12:01 PM UTC | Physics
A new study shows how gravitational wave observatories could be used to search for technosignatures throughout the galaxy
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Could Space-based Satellites Power Remote Mines?

By Andy Tomaswick - December 18, 2022 05:49 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Accident on the ISS, JWST Deep Field, Space Habitat Goes BANG!

By kuingul-gmail - December 17, 2022 12:37 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Aztecs Used an Extremely Accurate Solar Observatory to Manage Their Farming

By Matthew Williams - December 16, 2022 05:51 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
A new study demonstrates how the Mexico (Aztecs) kept track of solar cycles to guide their agricultural practices
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Are Planets Tidally Locked to Red Dwarfs Habitable? It's Complicated

By Evan Gough - December 16, 2022 05:13 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Juno has Been Touring Jupiter's Moons on its Extended Mission. Next Stop: Volcanic Io

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 16, 2022 04:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Avatars Return to the Movies — and Find a Real-Life Foothold

By Alan Boyle - December 15, 2022 10:06 PM UTC | Site News
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NOAA's New Weather Satellite is Operational, and its Pictures of Earth are Gorgeous

By Evan Gough - December 15, 2022 06:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Earth's Water is 4.5 Billion Years Old

By Evan Gough - December 15, 2022 05:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A Soyuz Capsule on ISS is Leaking Coolant Into Space

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 15, 2022 03:26 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Here's a new Image of the Carina Nebula From Hubble

By Nancy Atkinson - December 15, 2022 03:20 PM UTC | Stars
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Where are the Best Places to Land Humans on Mars?

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 15, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Watch a NASA Supercut of the Entire Artemis I Mission, From Launch to Landing

By Nancy Atkinson - December 15, 2022 01:56 PM UTC | Missions
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Birds use Dynamic Soaring to Pick Up Velocity. We Could Use a Similar Trick to Go Interstellar

By Matthew Williams - December 15, 2022 01:37 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new proposal for an interstellar mission shows how a solar sail could use the same technique birds do to pick up speed.
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Sierra Space Inflated a Habitat to Destruction, Testing its Limits Before Going to Orbit

By Nancy Atkinson - December 15, 2022 11:27 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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Rubble Pile Asteroids Might be the Best Places to Build Space Habitats

By Brian Koberlein - December 15, 2022 10:54 AM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study looks at the practicality of living in a common near-Earth asteroid
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Could Life Survive on Frigid Exo-Earths? Maybe Under Ice Sheets

By Evan Gough - December 14, 2022 06:57 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Perseverance Heard a Dust Devil on Mars, and Now You Can Too

By Nancy Atkinson - December 14, 2022 01:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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The Oort Cloud Could Have More Rock Than Previously Believed

By Evan Gough - December 14, 2022 12:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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The Formation of the Southern Ring Nebula was Messier Than the Death of a Single Star

By Brian Koberlein - December 14, 2022 10:22 AM UTC | Stars
Astronomers have learned a planetary nebula had a much more complex origin than originally thought.
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Hubble Sees a Glittering Jewel in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the Jewel is Disappearing

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2022 04:18 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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ESA's Upcoming Mission Will Tell us if Venus is Still Volcanically Active

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 13, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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In Case you Missed it, Here are Some Amazing Pictures of Mars Hiding Behind the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - December 13, 2022 03:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Astronomers Spot Three Interacting Systems with Twin Discs

By Matthew Williams - December 13, 2022 02:32 PM UTC | Stars
Using the SPHERE instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers observed how interaction between disks affects the evolution of planetaary systems.
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How Growing Giant Planets Fight for Food

By Paul Sutter - December 13, 2022 02:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty

By Paul Sutter - December 13, 2022 01:20 PM UTC | Cosmology
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We Have Ignition! Fusion Breakthrough Raises Hopes — and Questions

By Alan Boyle - December 13, 2022 12:26 PM UTC | Physics
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Asteroids Didn't Create the Moon's Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2022 11:44 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Orion Splashes Down in the Pacific Ocean, Completing the Artemis I Mission

By Matthew Williams - December 12, 2022 10:35 PM UTC | Missions
The Artemis I mission has splashed down, ending its mission and validating the technology that will take astronauts back to the Moon.
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Webb Completes its First "Deep Field" With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?

By Evan Gough - December 12, 2022 04:48 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Black Holes Shouldn't be Able to Merge, but Dozens of Mergers Have Been Detected. How Do They Do It?

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 12, 2022 02:28 PM UTC | Black Holes
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Perhaps a Supervoid Doesn't Explain the Mysterious CMB Cold Spot

By Paul Sutter - December 12, 2022 02:07 PM UTC | Cosmology
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