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An Active Galaxy That Erupts Predictably Every 114 Days Or So
A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes
A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us to harness limitless energy from them someday.
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Starships Will be Launching From These Oil Drilling Platforms Bought by SpaceX
SpaceX has just acquired two former oil drilling rigs off the coast of Texas, which it is converting into launch facilities called Phobos and Deimos
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3-D Printing on the Moon. From Regolith to Paste to Useful Objects and Structures
Massive Binary Stars Huddle Up Surprisingly Quickly
The Largest Sea On Titan Could Be Over 300 Meters Deep
You Can Actually See the Milky Way's Wave When You Map Its Stars
In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More Supermassive
A new study proposes that the upper mass limit for black holes could be a million times larger than we thought.
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The Universe in Formation. Hubble Sees 6 Examples of Merging Galaxies
Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane
Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near future.
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The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes
Only 31 Magnetars Have Ever Been Discovered. This one is Extra Strange. It's Also a Pulsar
The One Place on the Space Station Astronauts Aren't Supposed to Clean
Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs
Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break that limit for a time.
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Mars has Been Through Many Ice Ages in the Last Billion Years
A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System
A new proposal from the inventor of the E-sail shows how we could create an Earth-like space habitat around Ceres, which could be a gateway to the rest of the Solar System
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New Drones for Exploring Mars are Getting Tested in Iceland
Astronomers Confirm That Darksat is About Half as Bright as an Unpainted Starlink
This is a Simulation of the Interstellar Medium Flowing Like Smoke Throughout the Milky Way
What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes When Galaxies Collide?
