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An irregular, potato-shaped moon is in the foreground. In the background, the curvature of a red planet (Mars) is visible, featuring a massive shield volcano.

December 10, 2025

Can a Japanese Spacecraft Unlock the Mystery of Mars' Twin Moons?

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For the first time, a spacecraft will explore the Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. 

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Purple and pink logo of AirSpace

October 09, 2025

AirSpace Bonus! There's More to That: Auroras

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While you wait for AirSpace Season 11, check out this episode on the science and history of auroras from our friends at Smithsonian Magazine's podcast, There's More to That.

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A celestial scene featuring a dark planet silhouetted against the Milky Way's star-studded expanse.

August 29, 2025

Why Is a Planet Not a Star?

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Over 5,800 exoplanets have been discovered, with more and more being observed almost every day. But what makes these objects planets and not stars? How different are planets and stars, actually?

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A short, barrel-shape white robot has a silver, dome-shape head and two long arms.

July 31, 2025

Space: A Place for Robots

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The majority of what has been accomplished in space has been carried out by uncrewed robotic craft. 

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A travel poster that reads "Relax on Kepler-16b, the land of two suns, where your shadow always has company." The image shows a humanoid figure on a rocky surface under two bright orbs.

July 01, 2025

Could We Live on Other Planets in the Future?

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Could humans one day live on other planets? Many efforts are underway to answer that question.

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June 26, 2025

AirSpace Book Club

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In this inaugural Book Club episode, AirSpace hosts discuss The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Dr. Moiya McTier. Read along in a non-fiction romp through the Milky Way's life (and future death) told from its perspective. 

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Voyager Golden Record with AirSpace logo overlaid on it.

May 08, 2025

Space Jamz: The Making and Legacy of the Voyager Golden Record

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If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.

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Voyager Golden Record with AirSpace logo overlaid on it.

May 08, 2025

Space Jamz: The Making and Legacy of the Voyager Golden Record

Story | AirSpace Podcast

If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.

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Bennu, a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid, was the target of OSIRIS-REx, which touched down on the asteroid on October 20, 2020, collecting 4.3 ounces of rock and dust and returning them to Earth three years later.

March 20, 2025

An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact with an Asteroid

Story | Air & Space Quarterly

An interview with Dante Lauretta, NASA's principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In his new book, The Asteroid Hunter, Lauretta recounts the sample-return mission that brought rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu to back to Earth.

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Soft pastels enhance the rich colors of the swirls and storms in this close-up of Jupiter's clouds.

December 18, 2024

Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets

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Weather phenomena across the solar system are stranger than scientists could have imagined.

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