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3 Space Missions to Look for in 2021
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01, 2021
2021 is expected to bring some very exciting missions: We're putting more cool tech on Mars, going back around the Moon, and testing some sweet planetary defense from asteroids!
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An Unsung Hero of Astronomy: The International Ultraviolet Explorer
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05, 2021
The International Ultraviolet Explorer was the first of its kind, giving us glimpses into phenomena like supernovas and Halley's comet. So why do we hear so little about it?"
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3 Ways Exoplanets Rocked Planetary Science
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08, 2021
Exoplanets have taught us a lot more about planets than our solar system could ever teach us, from what happens when they’re born, to what happens when their stars die.
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Using Microbes to Mine Mars: The Future of Biomining
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12, 2021
Humans have been using microbes to separate minerals from mud since the middle of the last century, so we know biomining works on earth. But how will these tiny miners work in microgravity?
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This Galaxy Is in the Midst of Dying
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15, 2021
This week in news, scientists have found a galaxy coming to a smashing end, and a neutron star that's... The most.
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The Astronomical Records in… Trees?
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19, 2021
We can learn a lot about our galaxy by looking to the stars, but we can also reveal a lot about our cosmic history from... Dead trees?
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We Found Evidence of a Brand-New Particle
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22, 2021
X-rays leaking from dead stars could breathe new life into a hypothetical particle theory, plus an ancient Titanic force may have helped twist Saturn’s axis.
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3 Cosmic Time Capsules
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26, 2021
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
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NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole
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29, 2021
This week in news, the Insight rover's Mole apparatus called it quits, and research reported their findings on the first ever observed intergalactic binaries.
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The Leviathan of Parsonstown
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02, 2021
In the 1800s, William Parsons built a telescope larger than any in the world: The Leviathan of Parsonstown. This landmark in science history helped solve the mystery of just what a nebula could be.
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Maybe There's No Phosphine on Venus
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05, 2021
Remember when astrophysicists thought they'd found signs of life on Venus? A different team re-crunched the numbers, and their results raised some questions about that claim. Also, a .. show full overview
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How Did the Milky Way Get Its Spiral?
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09, 2021
Most galaxies that we know of are spirals, including the Milky Way, but how do they form and keep their shape over billions of years?
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Phobos Is Hiding Secrets About Mars's Atmosphere
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12, 2021
This week, researchers are getting ready to learn about earth and Mars, in places that you might not expect.
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Spacecraft Need New Heat Shields. Cue the Cuttlefish?
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16, 2021
Scientists are always searching for new materials that maximize strength and thermal protection while also minimizing mass for space flight. So, when developing new heat shields, why are they looking to cuttlefish for inspiration?
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We Found a Planetary Graveyard
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19, 2021
Researchers think they may have found a new way to study planets after they've been "buried" in a star! Astronomers are also officially acknowledging the discovery of a distant body with a thousand-year orbit and an adorable nickname.
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The Surprising Benefits of Space Flies
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23, 2021
In space we can finally get away from pesky flies landing in our drinks! But before we can live off-Earth full time, sending flies into orbit is helping us study how space affects our human hearts and immune systems.
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Perseverance Landed on Mars! Now What?
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26, 2021
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has successfully landed on Mars! But it's not alone! This week we discuss not one but three amazing missions to Mars.
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Could Dark Matter Stars Exist?
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02, 2021
Most of the universe is made up of dark matter, so could it form into stars and galaxies like regular matter?
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This Might Be a Brand-New Kind of Star
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05, 2021
Astronomers have theorized about an invisible star made up of theoretic particles in the past, but did we recently detect the gravitational waves of two of them colliding? Plus, .. show full overview
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Asteroseismology: How to Explore Stars with Sound
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09, 2021
Asteroseismology allows scientists to explore stars with sound. It can help them figure out what a star is burning and even help pin down the age of stars!
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A Planet Only Half Covered in Volcanoes
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12, 2021
Scientists have found a world that might be half volcanoes, half ball of ice, and it could teach us a lot about how life began on earth.
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3 Mysteries Solved by Extraterrestrial Tsunamis
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16, 2021
Earth isn't the only planet that gets rocked by giant tsunamis. In fact, giant waves on other planets have helped us solve a few mysteries about our solar system.
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We Almost Didn't See the North Pole Space Hurricane
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19, 2021
Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!
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How Does Titan Still Have an Atmosphere?
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23, 2021
From what we know about Titan, it seems like its atmosphere should have disappeared millions of years ago. So, why hasn’t it?
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Maybe Mars's Ocean Never Left
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26, 2021
Many researchers believe that all the water on Mars dried up, but some evidence suggests that it might have dried in.
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4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics
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30, 2021
The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics.
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The Pristine Visitor From Another Star
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03, 2021
You may have heard of the first interstellar object observed in our solar system, but did you know there's more than one? And speaking of icy rocks, new research suggests the ocean under .. show full overview
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The Most Common Planet in the Universe?
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06, 2021
There’s one kind of planet we’ve found more often than any other in the universe so far: mini-Neptunes. Now, some scientists think they’ve figured out why there are just so many of them.
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What If Dark Energy Doesn’t Exist?
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09, 2021
Dark Energy is what we call the mysterious force that seems to be pushing the universe apart. By some calculations, it makes up 70% of everything in nature. Or...maybe it doesn’t exist .. show full overview
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Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star
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14, 2021
There are a lot of incredible things in space, but neutron stars are some of the most mind-blowing. From liquid plasma oceans on the surface to a possible neutron superfluid in the core .. show full overview
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The First Flight in Another Sky
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16, 2021
What’s happening with the helicopter on Mars? We have an update on Ingenuity’s progress. Meanwhile, Curiosity’s camera are helping geologists find clues to the mysteries of Martian water!
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Where Did the Big Bang Happen?
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20, 2021
The name “The Big Bang” makes it sound like there was a big explosion in one particular spot, but if that’s the case, where did it happen?
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Punching and Burning Space Rocks… for Science!
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23, 2021
Sometimes, in order to learn something, you've got to punch a giant asteroid.
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The Strangest Planets in the Universe | Compilation
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27, 2021
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MOXIE and SpaceX launch
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30, 2021
NASA's MOXIE successfully creates Oxygen on Mars, and SpaceX's Crew-Dragon successfully returns to the ISS.
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The First Time We Landed on Mars
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04, 2021
We've successfully landed 10 different craft on Mars, but they all owe a bit of their success to Mars 3.
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Why We Didn't Know How Long a Venus Day Was
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07, 2021
Researchers have finally determined how long a day on Venus is, give or take an episode of Brooklyn 99.
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Will Space Settlers Live in Fungi Buildings?
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11, 2021
What if we could grow buildings on other worlds? Researchers are looking to fungi to help us colonize the stars.
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New Ways to Study Interstellar Space... With Voyager!
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14, 2021
Voyager 1 may be out of our solar system (and 40+ years old) but we're still getting plenty of new data from our interstellar space probe.
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What the Crater that Impacted the Dinosaurs Taught Us About Mars
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19, 2021
We've been trying to understand Mars for years, but some scientists think that ancient craters on earth might hold some answers to our red neighbor's history.
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Active Volcanoes on Mars?
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21, 2021
Mars is covered with the remnants of long-dead volcanoes, but one of them might have been alive surprisingly recently.
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The Glow of Life | Great Minds: Emmett Chappelle
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25, 2021
Dr. Emmett Chappelle developed a test to find living microbes on other planets, and while it hasn't yet been used to find life amongst the stars, we've found many applications for it here on Earth.
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There's another Milky way out there
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28, 2021
As a species, we like to think everything about us is one of a kind, including the Milky Way Galaxy, but new evidence shows that yet again, we're not so unique.
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The Unsung Mission That Made Apollo Possible
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01, 2021
Before we could set foot on the moon, the Surveyor missions were sent to give future astronauts some sure footing.
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Forecasting the Weather...on the Sun
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04, 2021
The sun is beginning a new weather cycle, causing debate among scientists about how intense things are going to get, and elsewhere, scientists are looking into just how fluid our early universe was.
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Why We Want to Find Plate Tectonics in Space
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08, 2021
It’s not easy to find active plate tectonics on other worlds, but doing so may bring us one step closer to finding a planet that can support life.
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Returning to Venus and Getting a Closer Look to Ganymede
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11, 2021
Good news for fans of Venus - last week, NASA announced two new missions to learn more about our planetary neighbor! And this week, NASA's Juno mission sent back a treasure trove of data about Ganymede - the largest moon in our solar system!
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Catching Solar Wind: A Truly Endless Energy Source?
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15, 2021
We could quite possibly catch solar winds as a means for endless energy, and though it sounds like science fiction, we have the materials to do this now.
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One step closer to real warp drives?
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22, 2021
cientists have long been looking for a loophole for getting past the speed of light, and they might be one step closer to achieving that.
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Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way
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25, 2021
The effects of dark matter on galaxies is a mystifying and difficult thing to study, but the Milky Way's galactic bar might present an exciting way to quantify how much of it exists!
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3 Ways to Explore the “Ignorosphere"
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29, 2021
One of the hardest places to explore in space is actually pretty close, some call it the ignorosphere.
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We’ve Found a New(ish) Type of Supernova
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02, 2021
We’ve known about different types of supernovas for some time, but researchers now believe they have observed a previously unseen kind! And, sadly, the odds of life on Venus may not be as high as we once believed.
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Crawl Me to the Moon
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06, 2021
Before every launch, there's a crawl.
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Could Solar Panels in Space Solve all Our Energy Needs?
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13, 2021
We need more solutions for our energy needs, and one idea is straight out of science fiction: Solar panels, in space.
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The Sun’s Electric Field Isn’t as Strong as We Thought!
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16, 2021
The sun shapes the solar system in many ways, including through its mysterious solar wind, which was thought to be pushed through the force of the sun’s electric field. Recent .. show full overview
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How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?
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20, 2021
It's virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that.
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How Big Are the Mountains on a Neutron Star?
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23, 2021
The extreme mass of neutron stars leads to enormous gravitational pulls, resulting in nearly perfect spheres. But those imperfections, or mountains, might be able to help us spot more .. show full overview
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A Raindrop Is a Raindrop, Even When It’s Metal
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27, 2021
On earth it rains water, on the exoplanet WASP-76b, it rains liquid iron, but no matter what planet you're on, the rain drops there have a lot more in common than you might think.
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The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior
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30, 2021
We’ve done a surprising amount of exploration on Mars, from its atmosphere, to its surface, and miles deep into its canyons. But mapping its insides has been a quandary that we hadn’t been able to solve until last week!
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The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There
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06, 2021
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede .. show full overview
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Great Minds: Dr. Judith Resnik and the Icebusters
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10, 2021
In 1984, ice was accumulating on the side of the Space Shuttle Discovery, spelling possible disaster, luckily it was the first mission of Dr. Judith Resnik, and the Canadarm.
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How Space Shuttle Discovery got its Solar-powered Wings
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13, 2021
If you want to get into space, you need combustible fuel. But if you want to stay operational in space, you need to harness the power of the sun itself.
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In Space, No One Can Stop You From Welding
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17, 2021
The welding process usually involves pretty extreme levels of heat. But it turns out that in the cold vacuum of space, metals can weld together... automatically.
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What Saturn’s Rings Tell Us About Its Soupy Core
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20, 2021
The insides of the our gas giant friend, Saturn, might be less of a mystery now that we’ve figured out how to use its rings to indicate its internal makeup. And the light emitted from .. show full overview
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The Biggest Comet Ever Found is Headed Our Way
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24, 2021
Scientists are discovering new objects in the solar system all the time. Most of these are small asteroids or icy bodies, but researchers recently spotted something unexpectedly huge heading our way.
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The Milky Way Broke Its Arm
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27, 2021
The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet.
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There Might be a New Kind of Habitable Planet!
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03, 2021
Extreme environments full of life on Earth have led researchers to expand the definition of habitability to something that includes many more planets, potentially leading us to evidence .. show full overview
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Luna 16: The Mission That (Finally) Could
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07, 2021
Before there was a rover named Perseverance, there was a series of missions that earned that name in their own right.
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The “Accident” That Revealed More About Our Cosmos
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10, 2021
Brown dwarfs are celestial oddballs, and recently one citizen scientist discovered one that is truly ancient, and weird.
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Predicting the Unpredictable: Space Parachutes
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14, 2021
Parachutes are a big part of keeping our astronauts safe, but despite being around for almost 500 years, there are still a lot of things we need to work on before they can be full proof.
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Making a Realistic Simulation of the Sun
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17, 2021
We’ve created simulations to recreate the difference in time it takes for the Sun’s equator and poles to complete rotations, and the way we’ve solved is a bit surprising. And it looks .. show full overview
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There’s a Birth Control for Stars
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21, 2021
Black holes are already pretty extreme, but some stand out among their peers, driving cosmic engines that outshines the rest of the galaxy and even serving as birth control for stars!
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Can You Build Homes in Space With Blood?
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24, 2021
If we hope to someday live on other worlds we need to figure out where we’re gonna lay our heads at “night.” But who would have thought we could use our own bodies as ingredients for our homes?!
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Creating a Template for Habitable Exoplanets
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29, 2021
We've found thousands of exoplanets over the years, but if we're going to find one that can sustain life, we need to take a look at the one planet we know that can, Earth.
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Early Galaxies Ran on Empty Gas Tanks
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01, 2021
Many galaxies formed fast after the Big Bang, but about half of them suddenly stopped making new stars and it looks like this is literally because they ran out of gas. And with new .. show full overview
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Our First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
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06, 2021
The dark side of the moon is full of mystery, and according to some, evil robots, but, in 1959 Luna 3 was able to shed some light on it for the first time.
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We Found a Planet That Orbits Three Stars..Maybe?
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08, 2021
New simulations of a triple-star system in the constellation Orion suggest that a planet might be orbiting three stars, which could drastically increase the amount of the solar systems .. show full overview
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How Stars Freeze
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12, 2021
When you think of a frozen object in space, you might think of Pluto, but stars themselves actually freeze.
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This Planet Survived the Death of its Star
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15, 2021
When stars die, they tend to take everything around them with them. But new evidence appears to show a planet orbiting a white dwarf, and we’re not sure how it survived! Plus, .. show full overview
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Our Past Written in the Stars
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19, 2021
Unfortunately, time machines don't exist, but there are other ways to learn about our sun's past.
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Mind the (Solar System's) Gap
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22, 2021
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the .. show full overview
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There’s a Rectangle Galaxy?
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26, 2021
You're probably used to real galaxies having curves, except not all of them seem to have gotten the memo.
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An Alternative to Dark Matter?
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29, 2021
Models of the universe’s early days have only been possible with dark matter as a variable, but we still don’t have proof that dark matter exists. But recently, scientists may have found .. show full overview
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The Legendary Arecibo Radiotelescope
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02, 2021
All telescopes work by gathering light from the stars, but one held the crown for square footage for collecting that light for 53 years. The amazing Arecibo.
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The Secrets Underneath Jupiter's Atmosphere
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05, 2021
We’ve probed some 250 kilometers into Jupiter’s atmosphere, and that’s raised some new questions about the mysterious planet. And we’ve taken another important step in looking for life .. show full overview
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Can We Change Earth’s Orbit?
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09, 2021
Climate change is a big problem, but could we solve it be giving the earth a little nudge?
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Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon?
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12, 2021
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are .. show full overview
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How Do You Get Rid of Bacteria in Space Stations
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17, 2021
When astronauts go into space, they're not always going alone.
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On Venus, You're Walking on Eggshells
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19, 2021
Earth's thick crust might one of the reasons our planet can support life. But scientists are looking for something a little more brittle.
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Why Did We Keep Sealed Moon Samples?
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23, 2021
We’ve been sitting on samples of the lunar surface for decades and, with better technology than when they were taken, we are opening them back up to take another look!
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Some of Earth’s Water Was Created by the Sun?
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03, 2021
The source of earth's water is something of a mystery, and some scientists are starting to think that the sun might have provided the special ingredients to help.
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The Hubble was Almost a $15B Disaster
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07, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending home images of the universe for more than thirty years, but none of its work would have been possible without the many servicing missions that kept it up to date.
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Why This Galaxy Gets TWO Black Holes
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10, 2021
There’s a massive black hole next door that appears far too big for its host galaxy! And in another galaxy, TWO supermassive black holes formed, giving us a glimpse at a true rarity in astronomy!
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The Star That’s Secretly a Lawn Sprinkler
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14, 2021
Scientists have found a star that spins so fast that it can almost complete a full rotation by the time it takes you to finish reading this episode description.
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The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow”
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17, 2021
The exploding “cow” around 200 million light-years away is running astronomers for a loop, but if it is what some hypothesize, we are witnessing a first for astronomy! Meanwhile, we got photographic evidence of a planet orbiting a binary star system!
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We Live in a Chimney
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22, 2021
There are some captivating things when you look up at the night sky, but our location in the Milky Way may be fogging up our view.
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The Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2022 | SciShow News
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31, 2021
2022 is looking like a great year for space exploration! Let's dig into three of the missions that we're really excited to watch unfold!

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