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When Comets Break Up, the Fragments Can Be Devastating If They Hit the Earth
Carnival of Space #658-659
This is How the ESA and NASA Will be Working Together to Bring Rocks Back From Mars
The ESA has entered into a lucrative collaboration to help NASA get its Martian rock samples back to Earth.
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Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids
The Trump administration just signed an executive order that has given the green light to asteroid and lunar mining and other commercial ventures in space.
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NASA's Plans For a Lunar Base Camp
In a recent report submitted to the National Space Council, NASA has detailed its plans for building a lunar base camp on the Moon that will allow for long-term stays there.
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Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Appears to Have Broken in Half
How Did the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Get Their Water?
A new study by an international team of astronomers raises questions about the existence of debris belts around red dwarf stars and how water could have been distributed within them.
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New observations show that the Universe might not be expanding at the same rate in all directions
Seriously, Life Really Does Get Around. It was Found in Rocks Deep Beneath the Seafloor
Study Finds Bizarre Exoplanet Orbits for Binary Stars
There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now, a new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such far-flung exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, far out of the primary orbital plane.
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WFIRST Will Use Relativity to Find More Exoplanets!
When it deploys in 2025, NASA's WFIRST mission will rely on the gravitational microlensing technique to locate exoplanets near the center of our galaxy.
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Astronomers Watched a Star System Die
How the World's Biggest Radio Telescope Could be Used to Search for Aliens
In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with Breakthrough Listen.
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Decaying Dark Matter Should be Visible Here in the Milky Way as a Halo Around the Galaxy
Weekly Space Hangout: April 8, 2020 - Colonel Mike Mullane, Astronaut
SpaceX Will be Flying Cargo to the Moon
SpaceX was recently awarded a contract through NASA's Gateway Logistics Services program to provide services to the Lunar Gateway
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Astronomers are hoping to see the very first stars and galaxies in the Universe
SpaceX's Third Starship Prototype Collapsed Last Night
SpaceX suffered another setback with its development of the Starship last night when a third prototype (SN3) suffered a structural failure during testing and collapsed.
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Because of Coronavirus Lockdowns, Europe is Having the Same Drop in Pollution that we Saw in China
Want to Buy Flights on Starship? Here's the New SpaceX Payload User's Guide, no Prices, Unfortunately
Carnival of Space #657
Stratolaunch Shows Off its New Hypersonic Testing Vehicle
New Find Shows Uranus Loses Atmosphere to its Magnetic Field
NASA's researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center recently did just that, looking at Voyager 2's lone encounter with the planet Uranus to uncover an amazing find, as the planet seems to be losing its atmosphere to it's lop-sided magnetic field at a high rate.
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Mapping Out the Water on the Moon
Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future exploration and resource prospecting
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Astronomers Define the "Really Habitable Zone". Planets Capable of Producing Gin and Tonic
Five Snapshots of how the Earth Looked at Key Points in its History Could Help us Find Habitable Exoplanets
A study by Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute provides models of how Earth looked like over time, which could help us find habitable exoplanets
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This Galaxy Has Only One Spiral Arm
Astronaut Pee Will Help Build Bases on the Moon
In a strange development, a new ESA-supported study has shown that urine could actually help astronauts build bases on the Moon
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SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing its Third Starship Prototype. Let's Hope it Doesn't Explode
Musk recently posted photos of the latest Starship prototype, which were recently assembled and shipped to Boca Chica to begin testing.
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This Galaxy is the Very Definition of "Flocculent"
Weekly Space Hangout: April 1, 2020 - Dr. Robert B. Hayes and Radiation Shielding in Space
How were Supermassive Black Holes Already Forming and Releasing Powerful Jets Shortly After the Big Bang?
A series of studies has shown that the seeds of supermassive black holes and relativistic jets existed much sooner than expected
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Are the Gaps in These Disks Caused by Planets?
How Will Clouds Obscure the View of Exoplanet Surfaces?
A new study shows how the presence of a cloud layer could make it harder for the James Webb Space Telescope to detect water on exoplanets.
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The heliosphere looks a lot weirder than we originally thought
Highest Resolution Mosaic Image of the Surface of Bennu
Even More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered
The CHIME radio telescope array has detected nine new fast radio bursts on repeat, which are revealing things about this strange phenomenon
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This Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying on NASA's DART Mission to Try and Redirect an Asteroid
Following Comet Y1 ATLAS: the 'Lost Comet' of Spring
Got clear skies? If you're like us, you've been putting the recent pandemic-induced exile to productive use, and got out under the nighttime sky. And though 2020 has yet to offer up a good bright 'Comet of the Century' to keep us entertained, there have been a steady stream of good binocular comets for northern hemisphere viewers, including C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS and C/2019 Y4 ATLAS. This week, I'd like to turn your attention to another good binocular comet that is currently at its peak: the 'other' comet ATLAS, C/2019 Y1 ATLAS.
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Weekly Space Hangout: March 25, 2020 - Amy Shira Teitel's Fighting for Space
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden has Passed Away
The world recently lost another luminary, NASA astronaut Al Worden, who was part of the Apollo program and piloted the Endeavor around the Moon
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How Researchers Produce Sharp Images of a Black Hole
A new study by members of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has shown how new images of black holes can be used to identify the substructure of these mysterious objects
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The three-body problem shows us why we can't accurately calculate the past
NASA Chooses 4 New Astronomy Space Missions for Additional Study
NASA recently selected four new missions for development that will study gravitational waves, supernovae, relativistic jets, and exoplanet habitability.
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Another Incredible Picture of Mars, This Time From a Region Just Outside Valles Marineris
An image taken by the MROs HiRISE camera showcases the types of terrain around part of Mars' Valles Marineris canyon system.
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This is Foam, Made in Space
Elon Musk says that SpaceX Has no Plans to Spin Off Starlink
At the recent Satellite 2020 Conference & Exhibition, Elon Musk declared that Starlink will not become its own company in the foreseeable future.
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Blazar Found Blazing When the Universe was Only a Billion Years Old
A team of European scientists have observed the most distant "blazar" to date, an active galaxy that was around when the Universe was less than 1 billion years old.
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The Lunar Gateway is No Longer a Required Part of the Artemis Mission to Return to the Moon by 2024
As anticipated, NASA has announced that the Lunar Gateway will no longer be part of their "return to the Moon" with Project Artemis.
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