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If we Detect This gas on Other Planets, it's a Good Sign There's Life There

By Andy Tomaswick - October 14, 2022 06:23 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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If Earth Were an Exoplanet, it Would Still be Tricky to Figure Out if There's Life Here

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2022 04:55 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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New Views of Ganymede and Europa From Earth's Most Powerful Telescope

By Andy Tomaswick - October 14, 2022 02:14 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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SpaceIL's Beresheet 2 Lander Will try Growing Various Plants on the Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - October 14, 2022 09:22 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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Mars Express Watched Deimos Pass in Front of Jupiter and its Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2022 08:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A new Launch Date for Artemis 1: November 14th ... at Night

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2022 04:31 PM UTC | Missions
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A Black Hole Burps out Material, Years After Feasting on a Star

By Matthew Williams - October 13, 2022 04:25 PM UTC | Black Holes
When observing a black hole that devoured a star three years earlier, an international team of astronomers noticed it "burping" material out at half the speed of light!
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Webb Sees Organic Molecules in the Hearts of Galaxies, Surprisingly Close to Active Supermassive Black Holes

By Evan Gough - October 13, 2022 03:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Starship and Super Heavy are Stacked up Again. How Long Until They fly?

By Matthew Williams - October 13, 2022 02:18 PM UTC | Space Exploration
The Starship and Super Heavy are fully stacked for the first time in six months, which could mean an orbital test flight is imminent!
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America's First Space Tourist Signs Up for Moon Trip on SpaceX's Starship

By Alan Boyle - October 12, 2022 10:50 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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SpinLaunch Completes its 10th Test, Hurling Payloads for NASA and Other Companies Into the air

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2022 07:01 PM UTC | Space Exploration
SpinLaunch just completed its 10th test flight (and its first test with payloads), putting them a step closer to commercial launches.
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The Moon Might be One Large Chunk that was Blasted Off the Earth Billions of Years Ago

By Evan Gough - October 12, 2022 03:55 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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These Bizarre Concentric Rings in Space are Real, Not an Optical Illusion. New Data from JWST Explains What's Happening

By Nancy Atkinson - October 12, 2022 01:00 PM UTC | Cosmology
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Satellite View of Stromboli's New Eruption in Italy. You Can See a River of Lava Flowing to the Ocean

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 12, 2022 12:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Phew, NASA's CAPSTONE is no Longer Tumbling in Space

By Nancy Atkinson - October 12, 2022 10:31 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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If There are Shallow Lakes Under the Ice on Europa, Clipper Will Find Them

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 12, 2022 12:34 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Success! DART Impact Shortened Asteroid's Orbit Time by 32 Minutes

By Alan Boyle - October 11, 2022 09:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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NASA has Built a Collection of Instruments That Will Search for Life Inside Europa and Enceladus

By Matthew Williams - October 11, 2022 05:17 PM UTC | Astrobiology
Scientists at NASA JPL and Colorado University have created a new instrument for finding signs of life, called the Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS).
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Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Every 51 Minutes. This Can't End Well

By Evan Gough - October 11, 2022 03:10 PM UTC | Stars
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A Migrating Moon Might Have Turned Uranus Over on its Side

By Andy Tomaswick - October 11, 2022 01:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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China Launches First Solar Observatory ASO-S

By David Dickinson - October 11, 2022 11:48 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy
China launches ASO-S, its first mission to explore the Sun.
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission is Finally out of Fuel After 8 Years of Science Operations

By Andy Tomaswick - October 11, 2022 09:57 AM UTC | Missions
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The Pacific Ocean Will be Gone in 300 Million Years as the World's Continents Drift and Combine

By Matthew Williams - October 10, 2022 03:14 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study determined that the world's next supercontinent, "Amasia," will form between two and three hundred million years.
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Thanks to Hayabusa 2's Samples, Scientists can Track the History of Ryugu Earlier in the History of the Solar System

By Andy Tomaswick - October 10, 2022 10:13 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Check out This Amazing Fly-through of a Futuristic Space Habitat

By Nancy Atkinson - October 10, 2022 09:38 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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The Dark Energy Camera has Captured a Million Images, an Eighth of the Entire sky. Here are Some of its Best Pictures so far

By Matthew Williams - October 09, 2022 01:59 PM UTC | Observing
The Dark Energy Survey recently released 15 images that showcase the types of objects it viewed during the six-year campaign.
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Ads Taking Over Night Sky, DART Aftermath, Best JWST Image

By kuingul-gmail - October 08, 2022 04:38 PM UTC | Site News
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The Methane Released From the Damaged Nord Stream Pipeline is Visible From Space

By Nancy Atkinson - October 08, 2022 11:50 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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The Moon is the Perfect Spot for Humanity's Offsite Backup

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - October 07, 2022 11:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Webb and Hubble Work Together to Reveal This Spectacular Galaxy Pair -- and Several Bonuses!

By Nancy Atkinson - October 07, 2022 02:19 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Binary Stars Live Complicated Lives, Especially Near the End

By Evan Gough - October 07, 2022 02:10 PM UTC | Stars
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A Solar Gravitational Lens Will be Humanity's Most Powerful Telescope. What are its Best Targets?

By Brian Koberlein - October 07, 2022 11:04 AM UTC | Telescopes
In the future, astronomers could use the Sun's gravity as a telescopic lens, and map the surfaces of nearby exoplanets.
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NASA had Been Designing Lunar Bases for Decades Before Armstrong First Set Foot on the Moon

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 06, 2022 06:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Astronomers see Tantalizing Evidence for one of the First Stars to Form in the Universe

By Matthew Williams - October 06, 2022 12:07 PM UTC | Cosmology
In a recent study, a team led by the University of Tokyo believe they have found remnant material of one of the first stars in our Universe.
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While SLS is Delayed, Crew-5 Zips in and Launches to the International Space Station

By Nancy Atkinson - October 06, 2022 10:59 AM UTC | Missions
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Here are the High-Resolution Images of Europa Captured by Juno During its Recent Flyby

By Nancy Atkinson - October 06, 2022 09:52 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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How Should the World's Governments Respond if We Detect an Alien Civilization?

By Evan Gough - October 05, 2022 03:18 PM UTC | Space Policy
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A Year After a Failed Launch, Firefly Reaches Orbit and Deploys Satellites

By Nancy Atkinson - October 05, 2022 11:15 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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27 to 78 cm of sea Level Rise Could be Locked in From Melting Greenland ice Caps

By cvers - October 04, 2022 05:08 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Underground Liquid Water Detected on Mars? Maybe not

By Matthew Williams - October 04, 2022 11:31 AM UTC | Planetary Science
New research from Cornell University shows that radar reading from Mars' South Pole region may not have been caused by an underground lake.
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LICIACube Sends Home Images of the DART Impact and the Damage to Dimorphos

By avers - October 04, 2022 08:58 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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After Getting Slammed by DART, Asteroid Dimorphos has Grown a Tail

By Nancy Atkinson - October 04, 2022 08:08 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Gaze Down Into the eye of Hurricane Ian, Seen From Orbit

By Nancy Atkinson - October 03, 2022 09:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Asteroid That Created the Biggest Known Crater on Earth

By Evan Gough - October 03, 2022 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A Small Piece of "Foreign Object Debris" Fell off Ingenuity's Leg During its 33rd Flight

By Nancy Atkinson - October 03, 2022 03:44 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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The Milky Way is Surrounded by a Vast Graveyard of Dead Stars

By Brian Koberlein - October 02, 2022 04:00 PM UTC | Milky Way
Astronomers have mapped the location of the Milky Way's black holes and neutron stars.
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The Bright Core of This Spiral Galaxy Reveals an Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 02, 2022 12:52 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Earthlike Worlds With Oceans and Continents Could be Orbiting red Dwarfs, Detectable by James Webb

By Andy Tomaswick - October 01, 2022 11:20 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Construction Begins on the World's Largest Steerable Radio Telescope

By Andy Tomaswick - October 01, 2022 10:42 PM UTC | Telescopes
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How Does NASA Plan to Keep Samples From Mars Safe From Contamination (and Contaminating) Earth?

By Andy Tomaswick - October 01, 2022 10:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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