A new study by JAXA and international scientists has confirmed the existence of a stable lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the Moon.
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A new study by a team of European scientists has shown how metal-eating bacteria could have left their mark on Mars, which could be discovered by future missions
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A new study from Brown University has offered a possible explanation for how surface water could have flown on Mars roughly 4 billion years ago.
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PORT CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The now twice flown SpaceX first stage booster that successfully delivered the SES-11 UHDTV satellite to orbit Wednesday, Oct 11, sailed proudly back home into Port Canaveral during a beautiful Sunday sunrise, Oct. 15 only three days after it safely landed on a tiny droneship at sea.
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Located in the direction of the Virgo constellation, some 68 million light years from Earth, is the barred, spiral galaxy known as Messier 58.
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A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by the Cassini orbiter.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A clandestine black ops satellite supporting US national defense launched into the black skies over Florida's spaceport in the dead of night Sunday, Oct. 15, on a mission for the U.S. governments National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) that lit up the night skies offering a spectacular vista on its journey to orbit.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Elon Musk's extraordinary vision of an era when re-flown rockets are offered as a 'routine service' rather than the exception is a 'major sea change getting closer' to fruition with each passing day thanks to SpaceX, said SES CTO Martin Halliwell in an exclusive interview with Universe Today, following the stunning sunset blastoff of the SES-11 UHDTV commercial satellite on another 'flight-proven' Falcon 9 booster that also re-landed - thus completing another remarkable round of rocket recovery and recycling or 'launch, land and relaunch!'
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According to a recent statement by members of NASA's Human Research Program, the threat of radiation will not stop the proposed "Journey to Mars" and other deep-space missions.
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Two new studies, independently of each other, have managed to fins some of the "missing matter" contained within the Cosmic Web.
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A new study by an international team of scientists has found a connection between debris disks and giant planets, which could aid in the hunt for exoplanets.
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A new report by an international team of scientists has found evidence of hydrothermal activity in an ancient Mars sea, which could mean life once existed there
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Up early Sunday morning? Or perhaps, as we often do, you're "pulling an all-nighter," out observing until the break of dawn. Well, the clockwork celestial mechanics of the Universe has a treat in store on the morning of October 15th, as the waning crescent Moon occults (passes in front of) the bright star Regulus (Alpha Leonis the "Little King" or "Heart of the Lion") for the contiguous United States, Mexico and southern Canada.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX staged a stunning sunset blastoff this evening Oct. 11, of the commercial SES-11/EchoStar 105 HDTV satellite that will serve the everyday needs of millions of customers across North America as it soared to geostationary orbit on a recycled Falcon 9 from the Florida Space Coast.
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After examining several samples of Martian volcanic rock, which came to Earth in the form of meteorites, researchers were able to determine more about Mars' volcanic past.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is all set for a sunset blastoff Wednesday, Oct. 11 of the commercial SES-11/EchoStar 105 Ultra High Definition (UHD) TV satellite serving North America on a 'used' Falcon 9 booster from the Florida Space Coast - that is also targeted to re-land a second time on an sea going platform off shore in the Atlantic.
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In two new studies by international teams of astrophysicists, a wealth of merging black hole pairs have been discovered, which has serious implications for gravitational wave research.
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In their latest study concerning Planet 9 , astronomers Brown and Batygin offer the first single and coherent description that accounts for all of the evidence
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A new study by an international team of researchers has proposed a new theory about Tabby's Star, indicating that it be due to an uneven dust cloud orbiting the star
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At the inaugural meeting of the newly-reestablished National Space Council, VP Mike Pence laid out the administration's plan for renewed missions to the Moon.
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A team of scientists from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have proposed a bold idea for protecting Earth against solar flare activity - placing a giant magnetic shield in orbit!
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A classified spy satellite for the U.S. governments National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is set to kick of a launch double header this week on the Florida Space Coast with what should be a majestic overnight liftoff Thursday, Oct. 5, of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V.
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For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT professor emeritus Rainer Weiss, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a new way to measure the mass of our galaxy - using hypervelocity stars!
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PLAYALINDA/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is targeting Saturday Oct. 7 for blastoff of the SES-11/EchoStar 105 commercial telecomsat following a successful static fire test of the first stage engines of the 'used' Falcon 9 booster, as a Florida Space Coast gator gazed on in wondrous glee as the engines fired away Monday afternoon, Oct. 2.
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At the recent International Astronomical Congress, Lockheed Martin shared details of their Mars Base Camp, a key component in NASA"s upcoming crewed mission to Mars
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Our own Matt Williams has his first published novel out, the Cronian Incident. A mystery novel based on the future human exploration of the Solar System.
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The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into 2019 before launching to the High Frontier and looking back nearly to the beginning of time and unraveling untold astronomical secrets on how the early Universe evolved – Engineers need a bit more time to complete the Webb telescopes incredibly complex assembly and testing here on Earth.
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Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have just conducted a crucial test of the thruster that will take the Psyche mission to meet a metal asteroid.
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A new study has indicated that the depletion of carbon from Earth-forming materials may have been essential to life here on Earth.
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At the International Astronautical Congress this week, Elon Musk revealed his plans to conduct missions to Mars and provide aerospace trips between major cities on Earth
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A new study by researchers from the University of Bristol has shed new light on how the planets like Earth and mars evolved to obtain the distinctive compositions they have today
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely 'Blue Marble' image of our Home Planet during last Fridays (Sept. 22) successful gravity assist swing-by sending the probe hurtling towards asteroid Bennu for a rendezvous next August on a round trip journey to snatch pristine soil samples.
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The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new era of research.
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The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to the Deep Space Gateway, scheduled for construction over the next decade.
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