The pitfalls of searching for alien life
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Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
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Beautiful maps of the solar system’s asteroids and the topography of Mercury
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
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Why astronomers are worried that SpaceX’s satellite network will pollute the night sky
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The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'
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Will Starlink and other satellite networks ruin the night sky for astronomers?
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Inside NASA’s race back to Neptune’s icy moon Triton
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The race to develop the moon
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The space rock that hit the moon at 61,000 kilometers an hour
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NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope, will run Javascript for instrumentation control using a defunct & proprietary interpreter with a list of errata last updated in 2003
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Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life.
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Astrophysical detection of the helium hydride ion HeH+
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Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’
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How to understand the image of a black hole
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With a second repeating radio burst, astronomers close in on an explanation
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New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter
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WFIRST faces funding crunch
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Venus is not Earth's closest neighbour
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US detects huge meteor explosion
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Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe
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Breathtaking new NASA images show Jupiter’s otherworldy storms
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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu
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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) shot from my backyard
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Mars Weather - Latest Weather at Elysium Planitia
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Meet Hippocamp! Neptune's smallest moon has a name (and a violent past)
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Our first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, is still a mystery. Despite some speculation, it's not a spaceship... but it might be a three-dimensional fractal snowflake.
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Is there life on Earth?
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Milky Way is 'S-shaped', 3D map reveals, in a new way of looking at our celestial home
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The 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight
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Physicists stimulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of a black hole
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Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed
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China Moon mission lands Chang'e-4 spacecraft on far side
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New Horizons successfully explores Ultima Thule
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When this post is fifteen hours old the spacecraft New Horizons will do a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule
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New Horizons : Where to Watch
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NASA's Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space
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The great silence
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Astronomers have found a star that may produce the next gamma-ray burst in the Milky Way
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Big new Indian rocket launches satellite, setting stage for Moon mission
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Moons around 'rogue planets' could sustain life — no solar system required
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Incredible 4K video of Earth from the ISS
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Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical
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NASA retires Kepler Space Telescope, passes planet-hunting torch
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New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system
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When pop-up books taught popular science
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Five in a row - the planets align in the night sky
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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Interstellar visitor found to be unlike a comet or an asteroid
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Nasa’s Hubble telescope is out of action: It needs three functioning gyroscopes to work but currently only has two.
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