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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, funded by billionaire Yuri Milner, is currently working to scan a million stars in our galaxy for evidence of…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Meteors have been raining down on Earth since time immemorial, but we are only beginning to understand that some of them have very exotic origins. In…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA is moving forward with plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth for more intense study than is possible on the red planet, and its robotic…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater since it arrived on Mars in early 2021. It made its way across the floor of the crater until…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Not long ago, an enormous telescope hovering beyond the moon and peering back to the dawn of the universe would have been science fiction, but the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s InSight mission on Mars is wrapping up, but it’s had quite a ride on the red planet. It recorded marsquakes, sent back Martian weather reports,…
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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to This Week in Space. Normally we’ve got a diverse set of space news and rocket launches to discuss. But since the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s inaugural launch was scrubbed twice last week,…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s Juno probe reached Jupiter in 2016, spending several years studying our solar system’s largest planet. The spacecraft is now in the second year…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As a spate of nasty winter weather has buffeted much of the US in the past week, NASA is reminding us how much worse it could be. You could be living…
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Happy Friday, dear reader. Welcome back to This Week in Space, where we round up the major happenings from LEO to the Oort Cloud and all points west. NASA is still working to get the Artemis moon rocket into the air, but they’ve set…
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