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This Star Might be Orbiting a Strange "Boson Star"
Perseverance Finds an Ancient, Fast Flowing River
JWST Looks at the Atmosphere of a Stormy, Steamy Mini-Neptune
New Images Reveal the Magnetic Fields in the Horsehead Nebula
A high-school student and an international team of astronomers created the first-ever map of the Horsehead Nebula's magnetic field.
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It Took Five Years and A Million Images to Make this Atlas of Stellar Nurseries
Dark Matter Can Make Dark Atoms
China Has its Own Secret Space Plane, and it Just Landed
China's mysterious experimental spaceplane (Shenlong) just returned to Earth after spending 276 days in orbit.
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Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago
Webb Examined an Asteroid Belt and Found More Than it Bargained For
What if Titan Dragonfly had a Fusion Engine?
A team of Princeton scientists have shown how a Direct Fusion Drive could greatly enhance the Dragonfly's exploration efforts on Titan.
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Meteorites Store a Magnetic Memory of the Early Solar System
Magnets are a handy tool for finding meteorites, but they can also erase vital clues about the early solar system.
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One in Ten Stars Ate a Jupiter (Or Bigger)
Building Planetary Systems That Could Last Forever
An advanced civilization might use horseshoe orbits to bring their vacation spots closer to home.
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NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals?
Chasing SpaceX: The Commercial Space Race Gets a Reality Check
We Can Only Bring 30 Samples of Mars Back to Earth. How Do We Decide?
What Does the Milky Way Look Like?
A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology.
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JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang
The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't disprove the big bang.
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LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There's a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful
A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave astronomy!
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Astronomers Watch a Star Gulp Down One of its Planets
