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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …
PTI
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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Astronomers may have just found the most distant astronomical object ever observed
Astronomers might have discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed. Named HD1, it…
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Telescopes and satellites captured clouds and spider-like plumes of debris after NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid
NASA's DART spacecraft didn't survive the mission, but both ground-and space-based observations doc…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The James Webb telescope captured a stunning image of the 'fingerprint' that forms when 2 stars come close to each other in orbit
The rings are produced whenever the two stars come close to each other in their orbit — and it only…
Cheryl Teh
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected mysterious changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The winds are changing inside Jupiter's biggest storm, and scientist aren't sure what it means. But…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Hubble Space Telescope images explain why Betelgeuse was fading and how the monster star is not going to explode — just yet
New images created by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Betelgeuse — one of the brightest stars …
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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A space telescope that could protect Earth from asteroids has been stuck in 'NASA mission limbo hell' - but it may finally escape
A telescope in orbit could track asteroids that may crash into Earth. But no such mission has moved…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Hubble telescope caught an asteroid ripping itself to pieces due to the 'YORP effect'
The effect is something like a parent swinging a kid around by her arms; once the parent rotates fa…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is dead 9 years after launching into space
That next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be…
Dave Mosher,Reuters
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly asteroids before they hit Earth. Here's how it could work.
"This is a great step forward for thinking about human destiny, because the dinosaurs certainly did…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets. The next step is for ground-based t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
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A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction
But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…