The World's Largest Radio Telescope Just Scanned 33 Exoplanets for a Signal From Aliens

By Matthew Williams - February 07, 2023 06:19 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Using China's FAST telescope and a new technique, an international team of astronomers scanned 33 exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Astronomers Make a New Map of all the Matter (and Dark Matter) in the Universe

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 07, 2023 06:00 PM UTC | Cosmology

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This Exoplanet Orbits Around its Star's Poles

By Evan Gough - February 07, 2023 04:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Sierra Space Tests Another Inflatable Space Station Module ... to Destruction

By Nancy Atkinson - February 07, 2023 12:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Check Out This Great View of Comet 96P Machholz, Courtesy of SOHO

By David Dickinson - February 07, 2023 07:09 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Now's the time to catch periodic Comet 96P Machholz on its encore dawn performance, before it slides out of view.

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Earth-Sized Planet Found At One of the Lightest Red Dwarfs

By Evan Gough - February 06, 2023 10:22 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Hubble's New View of the Tarantula Nebula

By Evan Gough - February 06, 2023 04:25 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Face-on View of Galaxy NGC 4303 Reveals its Arms are Filled with Active Star Formation

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 06, 2023 03:45 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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JWST Unexpectedly Finds a Small Asteroid During 'Failed' Observations

By Nancy Atkinson - February 06, 2023 12:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Rolls-Royce Space Reactor, Close Call in Orbit, Webb's Back

By kuingul-gmail - February 05, 2023 07:51 PM UTC | Missions

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A.I. Finds a New Way to Build Multiple-Star Systems

By Paul Sutter - February 05, 2023 10:50 AM UTC | Stars

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Astronomers use Earthquakes to Understand Glitches on Neutron Stars

By Paul Sutter - February 04, 2023 10:48 AM UTC | Stars

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The James Webb May See the First Stars to Appear in the Universe

By Paul Sutter - February 03, 2023 10:27 PM UTC | Cosmology

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Curiosity Finds Another Metal Meteorite on Mars

By Evan Gough - February 03, 2023 06:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Hungry Black Hole was Already Feasting 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

By Evan Gough - February 03, 2023 03:24 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Mars Ingenuity Kicks up a Surprising Amount of Dust Every Time it Lands

By Matthew Williams - February 03, 2023 02:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Based on all the dust Ingenuity helicopter kicked up, a team of researchers has completed the first real-world study of Martian dust dynamics.

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This Binary System is Destined to Become a Kilonova

By Evan Gough - February 02, 2023 08:56 PM UTC | Stars

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The Historic Discussion of Ptolemy's Star Catalog

By jon-voisey - February 02, 2023 12:15 PM UTC | Stars

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The First Stars May Have Weighed More Than 100,000 Suns

By Paul Sutter - February 02, 2023 11:46 AM UTC | Stars

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Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk

By Nancy Atkinson - February 02, 2023 11:04 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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