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Multi-messenger astronomy gives us a new picture of the universe. Now, researchers are getting ready to build a gravitational-wave detector bigger than Earth to make that picture even clearer.http://ed.gr/40d7 

Visit the town where International Space Station crews embark on their journey.http://ed.gr/6aze 

Astronomers confirm 104 new worlds in data from Kepler and Gaia.http://ed.gr/6bor 

What happens to our guts in space?http://ed.gr/1hp3 

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission successfully arrived at its destination today.http://ed.gr/6bhg 

Prior to the successful liftoff of Expedition 58 this morning, the astronauts spoke of their confidence in the Russian rocket.http://ed.gr/6ap3 

Too much radiation is bad for your heath, but it abounds throughout the cosmos. You can learn more about radiation and what we learn from it in this episode of The Real Reality Show.http://ed.gr/4s7c 

Meet the MarCO twins, tasked with tracking InSight's descent and landing to the Red Planet.http://ed.gr/5vyk 

For decades, scientists have been scanning Mars’ surface for signs of ancient life. But by digging a little bit deeper, they’ve come across historic habitable zones in unexpected places.http://ed.gr/04xc 

Enter the Zooniverse, where your contributions to science can become major discoveries.http://ed.gr/2kzg 

A massive meteorite impact crater just discovered beneath Greenland could help explain the mysterious Younger Dryas period.http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/massive-impact-crater-beneath-greenland-could-explain-ice-age-climate-swing …

Mars 2020's parachute passed the last critical test - and set a new record at the same time.http://ed.gr/3rqg 

Astronomers discover two "rogue planets" wandering the Milky Way without stars. The smaller free-range world is between the size of Earth and Neptune, while the larger one is between 2-20 Jupiter masses, meaning it may actually be a nomadic brown dwarf.http://ed.gr/42jr 

Meet the Milky Way's newest neighbor: A large but very faint "ghost galaxy" named Ant 2.http://ed.gr/4wqi 

The history of spaceflight began in the 1940s, and not in the way you might think.http://ed.gr/0bom 

NASA picks 9 companies that will compete to take us back to the Moon by 2022. The agency will award up to $2.6 billion in contracts to the company that can best build small spacecraft capable of carrying instruments and equipment to the lunar surface.http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/nasa-announces-the-nine-companies-competing-to-put-us-back-on-the-moon …

3200 Phaethon is the strange, blue asteroid responsible for the Geminid meteor shower. And now, scientists are starting to piece together its origin story.http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/the-phaethon-pallas-connection …