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NASA Telescopes Reveal the Atmosphere of a Strange Hybrid Exoplanet
Hubble has a Brand New Picture of the Massive Star Eta Carinae. It Could Detonate as a Supernova Any Day Now
Dr. Avi Loeb Thinks the Government Should set its Sights on Big Ideas in Space Exploration
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, a Harvard Professor and former White House science advisor recommend that the US government remain invested in research and space exploration.
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SpaceX has Lost Contact With 3 of its Starlink Satellites
Carnival of Space #618
Airplane Contrails are Contributing to Global Warming Too
"Eight Years to the Moon:" Read a Book Excerpt
Who Wants to be a Trillionaire? Mission to Psyche Could Uncover Tons of Precious Metals!
NASA's Psyche mission is sure to find some interesting things when it explores a metal asteroid, like quadrillions of dollars worth of precious metals!
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Ep. 536: Everyday Relativity
Astronomers See Evidence of Supermassive Black Holes Forming Directly in the Early Universe
Meet the Comet Interceptor. It'll Wait Patiently In Space for a Comet, Then Pounce On It
The Latest Insanely Beautiful Image of Jupiter Captured by Juno
A Fast Radio Burst has Finally Been Traced Back to its Source: the Outskirts of a Galaxy 4 Billion Light-Years Away
An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have immense implications for astronomy.
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Earth To Mars In 100 Days? The Power Of Nuclear Rockets
NASA is Going Back to Saturn's Moon Titan, this Time With a Nuclear Battery-Powered Quadcopter
French Scientists Claim to Have Created Metallic Hydrogen
A team of French scientists recently claimed to have created metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, a claim which is triggering both enthusiasm and skepticism
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Eruption of the Raikoke Volcano, Seen From Space
Our Complete Guide to the July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse
You couldn't order up a geekier celestial scene from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three seasons begins for 2019, with the only total solar eclipse of the year spanning the southern tip of South America, including the nations of Chile and Argentina. As an extra-special part of the spectacle, however, the path of totality for the eclipse passes right over the La Silla observatory complex in the Atacama Desert.
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The Most Efficient Way to Explore the Entire Milky Way, Star by Star
At this year's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC), a team from the ESA presented a model for how humanity could settle the Milky Way galaxy.
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SpaceIL Scraps its Plans to go Back to the Moon. Instead, it's Got a New Secret "Significant Objective" for Beresheet 2
Lakes on Titan Might Have Exotic Crystals Encrusted Around Their Shores
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Of Course Mars 2020 is Going to Get a New Name. NASA is Looking for Judges for an Upcoming Naming Contest
NASA and its partner organizations are launching the "Name that Rover" competition, which gives students from all over the US a chance to name the Mars 2020 rover.
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Curiosity Sniffs a Spike in Methane. Could it be a Sign of Life?
The Curiosity rover has detected another methane plume on Mars, once again raising the issue of whether or not there could be life somewhere beneath the surface.
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Third Falcon Heavy Launch Blasts 24 Payloads Into Orbit Including a Solar Sail. Doesn't Quite Stick the Landing
Carnival of Space #617
Ep. 535: Astronomy-Related Things To Do This Summer
Hubble is the Ultimate Multitasker: Discovering Asteroids While it's Doing Other Observations
Uranus' Rings are Surprisingly Bright in Thermal Emissions
New observations by ALMA and the VLT provide the most-detailed look yet at Uranus' system of rings, revealing things about their temperature and particle distribution
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Messier 88 - the NGC 4501 Spiral Galaxy
Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, about 50 to 60 million light-years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as Messier 88
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NASA Model Shows Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over the Next 1000 Years, Raising Sea Levels by 7 Meters
Deep Space Atomic Clocks Will Help Spacecraft Answer, with Incredible Precision, if They're There Yet
Enceladus is Filled with Tasty Food for Bacteria
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as all the info they collected in that time
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Stunning Image Shows How Saturn's Tiny Moon Sculpts the Planet's Rings
Two Earth-Like Worlds Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Only 12.5 Light-Years Away
The CARMENES project has detected two more Earth-like planets that orbit a red dwarf star just 12.5 light years away
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Competition Will Let You Name an Exoplanet
The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found
This is the Closest OSIRIS-REx has Gotten to Bennu. Just 680 Meters Above the Asteroid
New Ideas to Reduce Muscle Loss During Spaceflight
Carnival of Space #616
Weekly Space Hangout: June 19, 2019 - Corey Gray, Lead Operator at the LIGO Hanford Observatory
Martian Clouds Might Start with Meteor Trails Through the Atmosphere
Ep. 534: Modern South African Astronomy
Inflatable Heat Shield Could Deliver Heavy Payloads to Worlds With a Thick Atmosphere
NASA is testing out a new inflatable heat shield which could enable them to send heavier missions to Mars, as well as Venus and Titan.
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Earth has a Water Cycle. Mars has a Dust Cycle
Satellites Equipped With a Tether Would be Able to De-Orbit Themselves at the end of Their Life
A new technology that allows satellites to de-orbit themselves at the end of their lives could help mitigate the problem of space debris.
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Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA
This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining spacecraft!
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Saltwater Similar to the Earth's Oceans has been Seen on Europa. Another Good Reason Why We Really Need to Visit This Place
In Order to Reveal Planets Around Another star, a Starshade Needs to Fly 40,000 km Away from a Telescope, Aligned Within Only 1 Meter
If NASA sends a Starshade into space, it will need to perform some very accurate formation flying with the space telescopes it is working with
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