Universe Today
A magnetar has been discovered throwing off bizarre blasts of radiation. Is this where fast radio bursts come from?
Asteroids Somehow Migrated Past Jupiter During the Solar System's Early History
An exoplanet has been found for the first time using radio telescopes
Neutron stars of different masses can make a real mess when they collide
Why Can Black Hole Binaries Have Dramatically Different Masses? Multiple Generations of Mergers
Black hole mergers with very different masses tell us how small mergers can give rise to even larger ones.
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A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turned Into a Ring Around the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers discovered some surprising when studying a debris ring around our Milky Way: the remnants of an ancient globular cluster
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Newly forming star has spiral arms like a tiny galaxy
Mira-type variable stars are constantly throwing the key chemicals for life out into space
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?
Is it possible that the aliens are not hiding, but sleeping and waiting for the Universe to get better?
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Meteors of August: Our Guide to the 2020 Perseids
It's August and that means the Perseid meteors are inbound, starting this weekend this shower is a sure-fire bet, though 2020 sees the spectacle go down under somewhat challenging circumstances.
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Antarctica Is the Best Place On Earth for a Telescope, Is Also the Hardest Place to Put a Telescope
A Strange Planet has been Found that's Smaller than Neptune But 50% More Massive
Martian Features Were Carved by Glaciers, not Flowing Rivers
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun's Last Nine Big Flares
NASA Astronauts are Back on Earth After a Successful Crew Dragon Splashdown
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley just returned from the ISS, completing the first crewed mission from US soil in almost a decade.
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Finally! SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies Just Over 150 Meters Into the Air
Yesterday, SpaceX moved one step closer to sending people to the Moon and Mars when its SN5 prototype successfully made a 150 m (~500 ft) hop test!
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There's One Cloud on Mars That's Over 1800 km Long
Some Stars Could Support as Many as 7 Habitable Planets
A new study by a team of astronomers and planetary scientists calculate that some stars could have as many as 7 habitable planets orbiting them!
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The Universe is the Same, Everywhere We Look. Even More than Cosmologists Predicted
The Universe is about 10% smoother than we expect, and astronomers aren't entirely sure why.
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