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New Report Details What Happened to the Arecibo Observatory

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter,…

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Scientists Have Figured out why Martian Soil is so Crusty

On November 26th, 2018, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This…

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Plastic Waste on our Beaches Now Visible from Space, Says New Study

According to the United Nations, the world produces about 430 million metric tons (267 U.S. tons) of plastic annually, two-thirds…

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Multimode Propulsion Could Revolutionize How We Launch Things to Space

In a few years, as part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the "first woman and first person of…

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Orbital Debris is Getting Out of Control

In 1978, NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais proposed a scenario where the density of objects in…

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Astronomers Discover Potential New Building Block of Organic Matter in Interstellar Space

Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass. When…

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Death of a Comet: S1 Didn’t Survive its Sungrazing Plummet

Sungrazer C/2024 S1 ATLAS breaks apart at perihelion.

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Remember that “Alien Signal” Sent by the ExoMars Orbiter Last Year? It’s Just Been Decoded

In May 2023, the ESA's Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), currently in orbit around Mars, sent a signal to Earth…

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Webb Finds Dozens of Supernovae Remnants in the Triangulum Galaxy

Infrared astronomy has revealed so much about the Universe, ranging from protoplanetary disks and nebulae to brown dwarfs, aurorae, and…

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Chinese Company is Taking Space Tourism Orders for 2027 Flights

China has some bold plans for space research and exploration that will be taking place in the coming decades. This…

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