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+3 +1A Space Telescope With one job: Find Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri - Universe Today
Breakthrough Initiatives just announced a collaborative effort to launch a space telescope that will search for habitable planets around Alpha Centauri
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+16 +4NASA wants to use the sun to power future deep space missions
Solar energy can make space travel more fuel-efficient.
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+11 +2NASA hopes to hit an asteroid now in case we really need to knock one away later
NASA is launching a spacecraft head-on into an asteroid, hoping to change the space rock's orbit. It is a test in case we really need to smack one out of the way someday.
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+21 +6Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
They get in the way of the cosmos
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+18 +3Astronomers spot first possible exoplanet outside our galaxy
Saturn-sized planet candidate has been identified in Whirlpool Galaxy 28m light years away
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+4 +1NASA Is Planning To Construct a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon
In order to sustain human life for its planned missions.
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+4 +1Worlds next door: looking for habitable planets at Alpha Centauri
In collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Astronautics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Professor Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney is leading TOLIMAN, a project to discover if the nearest stars have planets that could support life.
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+20 +2NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars helicopter
Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action.
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+25 +2Chris Hadfield says more regulations needed to protect astronauts from space debris | CBC Radio
A recent space missile from Russia that blew up an old satellite has people concerned about the danger of space debris. But Chris Hadfield says this isn't a new problem.
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+4 +1A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine
Observations by the first infrared space telescope saw something weird beyond Uranus.
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+20 +2New mission to scour our interstellar neighbourhood for planets that could sustain life
Privately funded Toliman telescope to be launched into low-earth orbit to search Alpha Centauri star system
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+15 +2A Missing Piece of the Moon May Be Following Earth Around the Sun
New data suggest an object known as Kamoʻoalewa was shorn off the moon by a meteor impact before becoming a quasi-satellite of our planet.
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+16 +4NASA wants to fly the obsolete Space Launch System for at least 30 years
NASA recently revealed long-term plans for the Space Launch System (SLS).
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+11 +3Mind-blowing pictures of the solar system's most volcanic worlds
An up-close look at volcanoes in space and how they differ from those on Earth.
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+16 +4Uh Oh, Turns Out the Universe Might Be Making Black Holes Even Bigger
Researchers say they’ve found evidence that the expanding universe is causing black holes to grow with it.
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+28 +2Virgin Galactic wants to send tourists to space 3 times per month once its new spaceship is ready in 2023
Want to be one of the first to take a ride on Virgin Galactic's spaceship? That'll cost you a cool $450,000.
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+9 +3Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
Two planets orbit the poles while another revolves around the star’s equator, suggesting a mysterious, undetected force.
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+14 +3There are over 300 ways that the new James Webb Space Telescope could fail, NASA says
NASA's biggest space telescope ever is also its most complicated.
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+2 +1'We'll see if we can do it as well as Matt Damon did': How astronauts will grow plants on the moon
Within the next five years, astronauts will be growing vegetables in space with technology developed by Australian scientists.
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+18 +1Weird cosmic object keeps exploding over and over again, and scientists don't know why
An odd fast radio burst has been seen exploding over and over.
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