Universe Today
The Neutron Star That Thinks It's a Black Hole
Are There Better Ways to Communicate with Mars?
Want to Soar to the Stratosphere? Japan Joins the Balloon Tourism Race
Hubble's Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images
Stars Can Eat Their Planets...and Spit Them Back Out Again
Watch a Baby Planet Carve Out a Home for Itself
The Earth has an Even More Inner Core, and it's a Ball of Solid Metal
Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of a fifth layer in Earth's interior: an innermost-inner core!
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The Universe May Have Started with a Dark Big Bang
How do Black Holes Make a Shadow?
Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from Juno, With More to Come
An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds
It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days
A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.
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Astronomers Go Hunting for Mysterious Q-balls
Why are Earth's Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
ESA's Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter's unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system's innermost world.
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A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought to be impossible.
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The Dark Energy Camera Captures the Remains of an Ancient Supernova
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of the galaxy.
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