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SpaceX Tests the Starship's Hexagonal Heatshield. Starhopper Tests Could Come as Early as This Week
Spot Failed Soviet Venus Probe Kosmos 482 in Earth Orbit
Messier 81 - the Bode Galaxy
Astronomy Cast Bonus Episode: Dust with Dr. Paul Sutter
Astronomy Cast Ep. 522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks
Carnival of Space #603
Which Habitable Zones are the Best to Actually Search for Life?
A new study conducted by an international team of scientists examines what the term "habitable zone" means and how next-generation telescopes will test our assumptions.
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SLS Rocket Promises To Do Better
The SLS rocket found its future launch manifest severely curtailed in a new budget request. This leaves the long overdue rocket with uncertain long term prospects.
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Progress for the Skylon. Europe agrees to continue working on the air-breathing SABRE engine
The ESA and Reaction Engines recently took another step towards the realization of the hypersonic SABRE engine.
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Do You See the "Cosmic Bat" in NGC 1788?
This Star has been Kicked Out of the Milky Way. It Knows What It Did.
The Iridium Flare Era is About to End
Fast-forward to 2019, and the age of the predictable Iridium flare may be coming to an end. Already, scrolling through Heavens-Above reveals very few Iridium flares for the coming months, and these familiar nighttime flashes may become a thing of the past come 2020.
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This is the Final Photograph from Opportunity
Weekly Space Hangout: Mar 13, 2019 - Dr. Luisa Rebull, Spitzer, and Star Formation
This is What It'll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide Billions of Years from Now
China's Lunar Rover Wakes Up and Gets to Work for its 3rd Lunar Day
Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive!
According to a new study, black holes could be used as a gravitational slingshot, allowing for interstellar space exploration.
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Carnival of Space #602
Jupiter or Earth? Which One's Which, and Why Do They Look so Similar?
Now You Can See MU69 in Thrilling 3D
The New Horizons team has released new images that take advantage of the "binocular effect" to create 3D impressions of Ultima Thule.
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A Newer, More Accurate Measurement Sets the Mass of the Milky Way at 1.5 Trillion Solar Masses
Astronomy Cast Ep. 521: The Deep Space Network
Messier 80 - the NGC 6093 Globular Cluster
Located in the Scorpius constellation, roughly 32,600 light years from Earth, is the globular cluster known as Messier 80.
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Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don't
Pluto and Charon Don't Have Enough Small Craters
The New Horizons team just shared new findings about the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon's surface, which reveal things about the Kuiper Belt.
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It Took 10 Years to Confirm the First Planet Ever Found by Kepler
Ho-Hum. More Boring Success for SpaceX as Crew Dragon Splashes Down
This is an Actual Photograph of the Shock Waves from Supersonic Jets Interacting with Each Other
Weekly Space Hangout: Mar 06, 2019 - Dr. Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute
You're in This Picture. It's a Selfie Taken by SpaceIL's Beresheet Lunar Lander on its Way to the Moon
Gamma Ray Telescopes could Detect Starships Powered by Black Hole
A new study has proposed ways to search for advanced alien life by looking for the gamma rays produced by a black hole spacecraft
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Sorry Hollywood, it's Going to Take a Lot More to Destroy an Asteroid
A new study from John Hopkins University has shown that blowing up asteroids might be harder than we thought.
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InSight's Rock-hammer is About Half a Meter Down and has Already Run into Rocks.
Astronomy Cast Ep. 520: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter Part 2
Carnival of Space #601
Hayabusa2 Left a Dark Spot Where it Touched Down on Ryugu. Engineers Aren't Sure Why
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Ryugu, which mission controllers noticed after the spacecraft touched down on the surface and left a dark patch behind.
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Another Milestone for SpaceX as Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
Astronomers are Using NASA's Deep Space Network to Hunt for Magnetars
Complex Life Might Require a Very Narrow Habitable Zone
A new study has placed new constraints on the emergence of complex life, which effectively narrows what what we would consider to be a star's "habitable zone"
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Curiosity Crashed, but it's Working Fine Again. NASA Won't Have to Send Astronauts to Turn it off and Back on Again.
A few weeks after Curiosity suffered a glitch that put it in safe mode, the rover is once again operating normally.
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More Evidence that Planet 9 is Really Out There
The Record for the Most Distant Object in the Solar System has been Shattered. Introducing FarFarOut at 140 Astronomical Units
Virgin Galactic Sends Three People to the Edge of Space. Flights with Paying Customers Around the Corner Now
NASA has Cleared Crew Dragon to Fly. Demo-1 Launches on March 2
Weekly Space Hangout: Feb 27, 2019 - Dr. Ellen Stofan, Director of the National Air and Space Museum
Carnival of Space #600
Massive Volcanic Eruptions 66 Million Years Ago Happened Almost Exactly When the Dinosaurs Died Off
Messier 79 - the NGC 1904 Globular Cluster
Located 42,000 light-years from Earth is the globular cluster known as Messier 79, which may have originated outside of our galaxy.
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The Latest Images of Ultima Thule are in, and they are the Sharpest Yet!
The latest images taken by New Horizons of Ultima Thule are the most detailed to date, and are providing new clues about the objects origin and evolution.
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