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Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 11:00am
Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 104 — The Artemis Accords, Ecuador, and You

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 10:12am
On Episode 104 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with National Space Society chapter leader Robert Aillon about NASA's Artemis Accords.
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April 8 total solar eclipse: Why this eclipse repeats itself every 54 years

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 9:00am
The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970. Here’s why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years.
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Spaceflight doubleheader! SpaceX launches 2 rockets in 4-hour span (video)

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 9:00am
SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets today (March 30) from Florida less than five hours apart.
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Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short? Astronomers may have cracked the case

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 8:00am
New observations provide an intriguing window into what happens when a slumbering black hole awakens to devour a star.
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1st Boeing Starliner astronauts are ready to launch to the ISS for NASA (exclusive)

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 6:00am
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been training on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft for years. The team says they're ready for the first astronaut launch no earlier than May 1.
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Powerful X-class solar flare slams Earth, triggering radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 6:00pm
On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the planet's atmosphere.
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Why low-level clouds vanish during a solar eclipse

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 6:00pm
Cumulus clouds rapidly dissipate as the land surface cools. This isn't just good news for eclipse chasers on April 8, but also has implications for sun-obscuring geoengineering efforts.
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'Them space drugs cooked real good:' Varda Space just made an HIV medicine in Earth orbit

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 4:00pm
Varda Space has written up the results of its groundbreaking W-1 mission, which successfully crystalized the metastable Form III of the antiviral drug ritonavir in space and returned it to Earth.
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Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 4:00pm
Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking "ozone spike" and could impact global weather patterns.
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Solar spacecraft 'SOHO' discovers its 5,000th comet

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 3:00pm
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection.
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Lego Star Wars Executor Super Star Destroyer review

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 1:59pm
This impressive Lego Star Wars ship packs in plenty of detail without breaking the bank.
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Gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope image captures sparkling stars, old and new

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 12:59pm
A small galaxy is bursting with star formation in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Most quasars are a ferocious force of nature, but not this one

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 12:00pm
A quasar over three billion light-years away was found to be rather gentle on its host galaxy, allowing its black hole to keep growing.
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How to earn a 'black belt' in solar eclipse chasing

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 10:00am
We explore how eclipses repeat and what it takes to earn a 'black belt' in eclipse chasing, according to our skywatching columnist Joe Rao.
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NASA's 1st female chief engineer at Kennedy Space Center wants to put a space station around the moon (exclusive)

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 8:59am
For Women's History Month, NASA's Teresa Kinney shared what she's learned in 40 years of working in agency circles, and how she's trying to help the next generation fly to space.
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Europe's upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video)

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 8:00am
The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover now has a detailed map with which to help find its way around the Red Planet when it lands sometime in the next decade.
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NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down ages of 1st asteroid targets

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 6:00am
Scientists shared preliminary results from Lucy's encounter with Dinkinesh and Selam late last year.
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Life as we know it could exist on Venus, new experiment reveals

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 4:00pm
Some of the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions, according to a new lab experiment.
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Final launch of Delta IV Heavy rocket scrubbed late in countdown

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 3:44pm
ULA scrubbed the last planned liftoff of its Delta Heavy IV rocket on March 28 late in the countdown clock. The mission does not yet have a new launch date.
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