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Will Enceladus finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
InSight Felt the Ground Shake From a Meteorite Impact on Mars
Another Reason Red Dwarfs Might Be Bad for Life: No Asteroid Belts
Another Version of the Pillars of Creation from Webb
Not Just Gold. Colliding Neutron Stars Forge Strontium, Lanthanum, and Cerium
Thanks to multi-messanger astronomy, we now know colliding neutron stars create more heavy elements beyond gold.
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Monster Black Hole Found Near Earth, Starlink Hacked, Early Life Killed Mars
The Most Devastating Solar Storms in History are Scoured Into Tree Rings
NASA Announces the Team who'll be Studying UFO Data. It's a Pretty Impressive List
NASA just announced the members of the independent study team that will recommend how the study of UAP can help the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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JWST Sees the Same Galaxy From Three Different Angles Thanks to a Gravitational Lens
The Webb Telescope can see distant galaxies incredibly well, even when they are gravitationally lensed by galactic clusters.
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NASA is Mapping Giant Clouds of Methane Released by "Super-Emitters" Across the World
Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life
There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.
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Earth's Hardiest Bacteria Could Survive Hundreds of Millions of Years Just Under the Surface of Mars
Dwarf Planet Haumea is one of the Stranger Objects in the Solar System. How did it get That way?
How to See the Bigger Picture From NASA's Webb Space Telescope
Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, And Maybe Even See Signs of Life
How Dangerous are Nearby Supernovae to Life on Earth?
Clearing the Air on a Trip to Mars: the NASA Particle Partition Challenge!
With $45,000 in prizes, NASA's Particle Partition Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to maintain breathable atmospheres for astronauts far from Earth.
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Occultation Chasers Nab the Shadow of Didymos, Post DART Impact
The Smallest, Lightest Neutron Star Ever Seen Could be a "Strange Star"
A neutron star lighter than the Sun could be a strange matter star.
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Lucy Took This Picture of Earth as it was Making its Gravity Assist Maneuver
Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery
Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield
NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space debris,
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Maybe We Don't See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here
Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision
The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won't Liftoff Until Late 2023
Lucy Zipped Past Earth to get a Gravitational Assist Towards Jupiter's Trojans
NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years
A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy
Scientists Find an Ancient Stellar Catalog Written by Hipparcus Hidden in a Medieval Tome
Spectral imaging reveals the Hipparchus astronomical catalog was much more precise than we thought.
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A Nearby Star Has Completely Blasted Away the Atmosphere From its Planet
Chandra's X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe
No More Big Rip, Pillars of Creation by JWST, Biggest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever
Will Mars finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
Astronomers Find a "Marshmallow World": the Lowest Density Gas Giant Ever Discovered
Mars Could Have Been Warm and wet, While Earth was Still a Glowing Ball of Molten Rock
New research suggests that when Earth was still a ball of molten rock, Mars may have been covered in warm, blue oceans!
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Early Life on Mars Might Have Wiped Out Life on Mars
NASA Just Ordered Three More Orion Capsules, for Artemis VI, VII, and VIII
Nitrous Oxide, aka "Laughing gas", Could be an Indication of Life in an Exoplanet
Why NASA Is Trying to Crash Land on Mars
Webb Sees a Cluster of Galaxies Feeding a Quasar
A Monster Black Hole has Been Found Right in our Backyard (Astronomically Speaking)
Using data from multiple observstories, a team of astronomers has discovered a monster blackhole right in our backyard!
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First 100 Days of James Webb. Everything You Need to Know
Astronomers Chart the Influence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy on the Universe by Measuring Over 1,500 Supernovae
Two decades of supernova observations still leave big mysteries unsolved.
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Curiosity Arrives in a Salty Region of Mars. Was it Left Over From a Dying Sea?
What's the Best Shielding to Protect Astronauts on Mars?
Our Guide to Tuesday's Partial Solar Eclipse for Europe
Europe, the Middle East, and northeast Africa will see the final solar eclipse of 2022 next Tuesday.
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Astronomers Just saw the Most Powerful Gamma-ray Burst Ever Recorded
In a series of studies, two teams of astronomers shared their data on the closest and most powerful gamma ray burst ever observed.
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Here's Webb's View of the Pillars of Creation
The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Flooded the World's Coastlines With a Catastrophic Tsunami
New research shows that in addition to killing the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub Impact caused a global tsunami 30,000 more powerful than anything we've ever seen!
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The Heaviest Element Ever Seen in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere: Barium
