Space.com contributing writer Stefanie Waldek is a self-taught space nerd and aviation geek who is passionate about all things spaceflight and astronomy. With a background in travel and design journalism, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University, she specializes in the budding space tourism industry and Earth-based astrotourism. In her free time, you can find her watching rocket launches or looking up at the stars, wondering what is out there. Learn more about her work at www.stefaniewaldek.com.
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The super-Earth exoplanet Janssen is so close to its star, a year is only 18 hours long.

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On Mars, dust devils can have both positive and negative impacts on robotic exploration on the planet.

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ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy gives us a peek at the action inside the stellar nurseries.

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NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission will deploy a small satellite to skim the moon's surface and use lasers to search for water ice in lunar craters.

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Archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an infant supernova photographed just hours after the star's explosion 11.5 billion years ago.

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New research indicates that certain areas of the Martian crust have a higher silica content than expected, upending the long-held theory that the crust is uniformly basaltic.

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Catch Saturn making a close approach of the moon in its first quarter phase on Tuesday (Nov. 1).

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The boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium appears to be moving in an unexpected manner.

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A newly processed image, comprising 41 observations by NASA's retired Cassini mission, provides insights into the origins of Saturn's rings.

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The Hubble Space Telescope observed the aftermath of astronomers' first-ever neutron star collision and measured how fast the jet produced traveled.

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The asteroid Phaethon's rotational period is decreasing, which is rare for space rocks.

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Across the United States, the moon and Saturn will appear to be close neighbors for a good portion of the night.

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The NASA-USGS Landsat 9 satellite spotted an eruption at the Home Reef seamount in the Tonga Islands that produced a small island.

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Amateur astronomers can help verify discoveries by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

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Since 2014, SOFIA has been cruising through the night skies around the world, looking at the cosmos, but that mission ends this week.

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On Monday (Sept. 26) at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), if all goes well, DART will crash into Dimorphos in an attempt to alter the moonlet's trajectory.

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The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.

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The Virtual Telescope Project will attempt to show DART's impact through its network of ground-based telescopes.

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You have to look for the clues that the protoplanet exists, not for the protoplanet itself.

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Evidence collected by the Tianwen 1 orbiter and Zhurong rover supports the possible existence of an ancient ocean in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars.

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Making things for Mars astronauts on-planet would be a boon for future human missions.

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Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

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This is the spacecraft's 13th close approach to the sun, but its first in a new era of solar activity.
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