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Webb Telescope Sees Jupiter and Its Auroras in a New Light

By Alan Boyle - August 22, 2022 04:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Gravitational Waves Will Give Astronomers a new way to Look Inside Neutron Stars

By Brian Koberlein - August 22, 2022 12:46 PM UTC | Physics
Astronomers can use gravitational wave data to study the interiors of neutron stars, thanks to new gravitational wave models.
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How Weak Will Astronauts Feel When They First set Foot on Mars After Months in Space?

By Matthew Williams - August 21, 2022 05:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new mathematical model can simulate if astronauts will be operate in Martian gravity after months of flying through space.
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Were Phobos and Deimos Once a Single Martian Moon That Split up? Not Likely, says New Study

By Matthew Williams - August 21, 2022 04:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science
A new study has cast doubt on the theory that Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were once a single moon that split apart.
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Another of the Lucy Mission's Asteroids has a Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 12:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Mars and Moon Dust can be Turned Into Geopolymer Cement. Good Enough for Landing Pads and Other Structures

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 11:46 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Mars InSight Doesn't Find any Water ice Within 300 Meters Under its Feet

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 11:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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The First Crops on Mars Should be Alfalfa and Cyanobacteria. Then Comes Tastier Plants

By sjohnston - August 20, 2022 07:27 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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A new way to Make Oxygen on Mars: Using Plasma

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 06:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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New Pics of Phobos From China's Tianwen-1 Orbiter

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 05:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Not Just a Planet Hunter. TESS Found Over 25,000 Flaring Stars

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 05:32 PM UTC | Stars
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Artemis Astronauts Could Rely on Solar Cells Made out of Moon Dust

By Matthew Williams - August 20, 2022 02:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Researchers from TalTech have devised a cost-effective method for producing lightweight, flexible solar cells on the Moon!
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Largest JWST Image, First Private Interplanetary Mission, Space Bubbles VS Climate Change

By kuingul-gmail - August 20, 2022 07:17 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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Astronomers Have Revealed a Black Hole's Photon Ring for the First Time

By Brian Koberlein - August 19, 2022 03:25 PM UTC | Black Holes
Using data from the Event Horizon Telescope, a team of astronomers have calculated the photon ring of M87*.
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Has JWST Found Proto-Globular Clusters?

By Paul Sutter - August 19, 2022 12:50 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Ancient Coin Discovery With An Astronomical Mystery

By David Dickinson - August 19, 2022 08:37 AM UTC | Site News
What does the Roman coin found recently off the shores of Israel depict?
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Lucy's Solar Array is Fixed! (Mostly)

By Paul Sutter - August 18, 2022 11:50 PM UTC | Missions
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Ukraine Crowdfunded a $17M Reconnaissance SAR Satellite

By kuingul-gmail - August 18, 2022 09:48 PM UTC | Space Policy
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What is the Maximum Number of Moons that Earth Could Have?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 18, 2022 09:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Cyanobacteria Will be our Best Partner for Living on Mars

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2022 07:36 PM UTC | Astrobiology
An international team of researchers has found a strain of cyanobacteria that could produce biomass on Mars and grow food for astronauts!
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A New Image From Webb Shows Galaxy NGC 1365, Known to Have an Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2022 02:02 PM UTC | Black Holes
A new James Webb image shows the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy in stunning detail!
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Would We Have Continents Without Asteroid Impacts?

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 18, 2022 12:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Spacewalk Cut Short, Cosmonaut Told to "Drop Everything" and Go Back Into the Space Station

By Nancy Atkinson - August 18, 2022 12:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Artemis 1 Goes Back to the Launch pad, Getting Ready for its August 29th Blastoff

By Nancy Atkinson - August 18, 2022 10:03 AM UTC | Space Exploration
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Here's the Largest Image JWST Has Taken So Far

By Nancy Atkinson - August 17, 2022 05:56 PM UTC | Telescopes
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R136 is the Most Massive Star Astronomers Have Ever Found. We Just got Some new Images of it

By Paul Sutter - August 17, 2022 12:53 PM UTC | Stars
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NASA Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann will be the First Indigenous Woman in Space!

By Matthew Williams - August 16, 2022 06:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Nicole Aunapu Mann, the mission commander of the Crew-5 mission, will be the first Indigenous woman to go to space!
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One Exciting way to Find Planets: Detect the Signals From Their Magnetospheres

By Brian Koberlein - August 16, 2022 11:29 AM UTC | Exoplanets
Some exoplanets could be discovered by tuning into their radio transmissions.
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Brand New Stars in the Orion Nebula, Seen by Hubble

By Nancy Atkinson - August 16, 2022 09:44 AM UTC | Stars
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Satellites are Tracking Rivers of Garbage Flowing Across the Oceans

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 16, 2022 12:15 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Lunar Rocks Have Earth's Noble Gases Trapped Inside. More Evidence That the Moon Came From the Earth

By sjohnston - August 15, 2022 08:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Hot Stars Blast Away at gas Giants Until Only Their Rocky Cores Remain

By Brian Koberlein - August 14, 2022 11:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets
We don't see many Neptune-sized worlds closely orbiting their star. That may be because the star robs them of their atmospheres.
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JWST's Science, Surgeon Robot for ISS, Booster 7 Test Fire

By kuingul-gmail - August 14, 2022 08:56 AM UTC | Missions
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MIT Researchers Propose Space Bubbles to Stop Climate Change

By Paul Sutter - August 13, 2022 10:38 PM UTC | Space Policy
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In Wildly Different Environments, Stars End Up Roughly the Same

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 13, 2022 09:03 PM UTC | Stars
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Primordial Black Holes Could Have Triggered the Formation of Supermassive Black Holes

By Brian Koberlein - August 13, 2022 01:30 PM UTC | Black Holes
Computer simulations show the role primordial black holes may have played in the early universe, but the process isn't clear cut.
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Why Betelgeuse Dimmed

By Matthew Williams - August 12, 2022 05:27 PM UTC | Stars
Using data from Hubble and other observatories, a team of scientists have determine the cause of Betelgeuse's dimming - old age!
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Thanks to Gaia we Know Exactly how and When the Sun Will die

By Brian Koberlein - August 12, 2022 03:27 PM UTC | Stars
Observations from the Gaia spacecraft gives us a detailed picture of how the Sun will live and die.
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Starlink Satellites Are Still Bright

By David Dickinson - August 12, 2022 10:42 AM UTC | Space Policy
The new generation of Starlink satellites remain above the accepted brightness threshold.
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Impacts From Interstellar Objects Should Leave Very Distinct Craters

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 11, 2022 11:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Here's a Sneak Preview of What It'll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 11, 2022 08:48 PM UTC | Milky Way
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The Youngest Exoplanet Ever Seen?

By Matthew Williams - August 11, 2022 07:55 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed what could be the youngest exoplanet ever detected!
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Even a Cyclical Universe Needed to Come From Somewhere

By Brian Koberlein - August 11, 2022 01:10 PM UTC | Cosmology
The cyclic universe model proposes a universe with no beginning, but a new study shows it might need a beginning after all.
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SpaceX Super Heavy Fires Just one of its Engines. Imagine What it'll be Like When it Fires all 33

By Matthew Williams - August 10, 2022 05:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Musk just tweeted an image of the BN7 Super Heavy Booster successfully conducting a static fire test!
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Hazegrayart Shows how Rocket Lab's Reusable Neutron Rocket Could Work

By Matthew Williams - August 10, 2022 03:31 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new animation shows what Rocket Lab's totally-reusable rocket will look like when it starts sending satellites to space.
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Astronomers Were Fortunate Enough to Catch a Neutron Star Merging With Another Star

By Paul Sutter - August 10, 2022 12:54 PM UTC | Stars
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Perseverance has Found a 'Cat Hair' in its Drill Chuck. What is it?

By Nancy Atkinson - August 10, 2022 10:13 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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It's Been 10 Years Since Curiosity Landed on Mars, and the Rover is Still Going Strong

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 09, 2022 09:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Gravitational Waves Near a Neutron Star Could Generate Photons

By Paul Sutter - August 09, 2022 12:56 PM UTC | Physics
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South Korea's First Orbital Mission to the Moon is on its Way

By Nancy Atkinson - August 09, 2022 11:55 AM UTC | Missions
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