Universe Today
Astronomers Find a Planet With Three Times the Mass of Jupiter
The Sun is less active magnetically than other stars
While the Sun can be active, it is often quite a calm star. We now know it is unusually calm when compared to other stars.
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Worlds With Hydrogen in Their Atmospheres Could Be the Perfect Place to Search for Life
Want to Mine the Moon? Here's a Detailed Map of all its Minerals
The USGS' Astrogeology Science Center has released a complete mineral map of the Moon, which the lunar mining crowd is sure to appreciate!
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When Universities Reopen, Will Students Return?
Supermassive Black Hole Orbits an Even More Massive Black Hole, Crashing Through its Accretion Disk Every 12 Years
Recent observations by the now-retired Spitzer mission have led to accurate predictions OJ 287, a blazar that contains a supermassive black hole orbited by another black hole.
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The Companies Taking NASA Back to the Moon in 2024: Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics
NASA recently announced the three companies that will be building lunar landing systems to take astronauts back to the Moon - SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics.
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Rocky Planets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars Could be the Perfect Places to Search for Life
NASA's Perseverance Rover is Going to Jezero Crater, Which is Looking Better and Better as a Place to Search for Evidence of Past Life on Mars
Could The Physical Constants Change? Possibly, But Probably Not
The laws of physics are rooted in universal physical constants. But what if these constants change over time?
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Mars Helicopter gets a Name: Ingenuity
You're Looking at Spiral Galaxies, Already Forming When the Universe was Just a Baby
The ALPINE survey recently observed 118 galaxies dated to just 1-1.5 billion years ago, and found that the early galaxies were surprisingly developed.
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Terrible Luck. The Only Person Ever Killed by a Meteorite - Back in 1888
China's First Mars Lander is Going to be Called "Tianwen"
How Do You Weigh The Universe?
If we can find the weight of everything in the universe, we can better understand how the universe came to be.
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There Might Be Dust Devils On Titan Too
How Will Covid-19 affect the Future of Science?
Can wormholes act like time machines?
Fomalhaut's Planet Has Gone Missing, But it Might Have Been Something Even More Interesting
Ongoing observations of the Fomalhaut system using Hubble data has revealed that the mysterious "disappearing" exoplanet may not have been an exoplanet at all.
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