In a first, NASA's Perseverance rover makes breathable oxygen on Mars
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India launches space mission to orbit and study the sun a week after moon landing
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Do advanced civilizations know we're here?
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Spectacular meteor streaks across night sky in Turkey
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In photos: The rise of the super blue moon spectacle
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XRISM will be launching Sunday, Aug 27 at 8:26pm, EDT (Aug 28, 0:26:22 UTC)
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How a Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter
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Meteor activity outlook for August 5-11, 2023
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Where did the term blue moon come from, and how rare is the ‘super blue moon’ later this month?
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Chandrayaan-3 lands on moon in historic moment for India
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Russia's Luna 25 moon probe crashes into moon after failed orbital maneuver
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Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
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Clouds on Neptune perform a surprise disappearing act
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Rare look into revenue and costs of SpaceX
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Closing down an icon: Although Arecibo Observatory is slated to become an education center, astronomers hope research might one day return to the site
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Tiny meteorites are everywhere - here's how to find them
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The Ring Nebula comes into focus, and it's astounding
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Russia has launched its first mission to the moon in nearly fifty years
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Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023)
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland
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While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter
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Among US whistleblower claims: Nonhuman biologics have been recovered
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Airbus partners with Voyager Space to build ISS replacement
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NASA detects signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact due to wrong command
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NASA’s Voyager 2 is experiencing an unplanned ‘communications pause’ expected to last until October 15
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Gateway: an overview of a proposed small, human-tended, space station orbiting the moon
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Chinese spaceship with three aboard docks with Tiangong space station
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Researchers find ancient high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus’s volcanism
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Unexplained space phenomenon has been lighting up every twenty minutes since 1988
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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side
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What color is the sun?
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A simulation of first contact ran on May 24, 2023. Here is the website with the details.
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We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
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A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
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Meteor activity outlook for July 15-21, 2023
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Turns out, our solar system is the rarest planetary system out there
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How I discovered the Hummingbird Nebula
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New 3D visualization by NASA highlights 5,000 galaxies revealed by James Webb Space Telescope
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb has found fragments of a meteoroid that he believes could be from a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget
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Dr. Angela Collier, theoretical physicist, discusses aliens, crackpots, and Avi Loeb
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NASA's "rubber room", the emergency egress bunker located below the Apollo launch pad
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Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of universe
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Why not Mars
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Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket
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We're back at the Royal Astronomical Society to look at some awesome antique moon globes
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Astronomer here! AMA!
I'm here on the invitation of someone else, and not sure what this new website is all about yet/ the space stuff seems pretty scant, so anyone got a question about space they need answering? For...
I'm here on the invitation of someone else, and not sure what this new website is all about yet/ the space stuff seems pretty scant, so anyone got a question about space they need answering?
For those who don't know me from the certain other website, I am a radio astronomer currently at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Known under this user account on a certain other website for comments that begin with "astronomer here!"
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Seven amazing accomplishments the James Webb Space Telescope achieved in its first year
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Vote to block Georgia spaceport upheld by state’s high court
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What is a blue moon and when is the next one?
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Meteor activity outlook for July 1-7, 2023
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