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You Can't Know the True Size of an Exoplanet Without Knowing its Star's Magnetic Field
Stellar Winds Coming From Other Stars Measured for the First Time
Neutron Stars Could be Heating Up From Dark Matter Annihilation
Astronomers have an intriguing idea for searching for dark matter, measuring the effect of particle self-annihilation inside various astronomical objects, from planets to stars and even white dwarfs. Now, astronomers are suggesting that dark matter annihilation should have a noticeable effect on the temperature of neutron stars. Dark matter could be collecting inside the intense gravity wells of neutron stars, annihilating and making them hotter than they should be.
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The Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Seen Came from a Collapsing Star
Formation-Flying Spacecraft Could Probe the Solar System for New Physics
Watch a Satellite Reaction Wheel Melt in a Simulated Orbital Re-Entry
NASA is Building an Electrodynamic Shield to Deal with all that Dust on the Moon and Mars
Did An Ancient Icy Impactor Create the Martian Moons?
NASA's Next Solar Sail is About to Go to Space
Wireless Power Transmission Could Enable Exploration of the Far Side of the Moon
Here are the Next Three Total Solar Eclipses Coming Up
Could Life Exist in Water Droplet Worlds in Venus' Atmosphere?
How Much of Venus's Atmosphere is Coming from Volcanoes?
US Satellite Photographs a South Korean Satellite from Lunar Orbit
Here's the Total Solar Eclipse, Seen From Space
If Europa has Geysers, They're Very Faint
WISPR Team Images Turbulence within Solar Transients for the First Time
What Happens to Solar Systems When Stars Become White Dwarfs?
A Neutron Star Merged with a Surprisingly Light Black Hole
The Seven Most Intriguing Worlds to Search for Advanced Civilizations (So Far)
What a Swarm of Probes Can Teach Us About Proxima Centauri B
Measuring the Atmospheres of Other Worlds to See if There are Enough Nutrients for Life
Does the Rise of AI Explain the Great Silence in the Universe?
If We Want to Visit More Asteroids, We Need to Let the Spacecraft Think for Themselves
Testing a Probe that Could Drill into an Ice World
What Could We Build With Lunar Regolith?
The World's Largest Digital Camera is Complete. It Will Go Into the Vera Rubin Observatory
The First Atmospheric Rainbow on an Exoplanet?
Astronomers think they've detected the first-ever rainbow-like "glory effect" on an exoplanet. The observations were made with ESA's Cheops mission, which helps to pin down the characteristics of known exoplanets, including the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b. When the star's light passes through a planet's atmosphere, it creates colorful concentric rings that have been seen on Earth and even Venus but never on an exoplanet.
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Roman Will Learn the Ages of Hundreds of Thousands of Stars
Webb Sees a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation
The Stellar Demolition Derby in the Centre of the Galaxy
A New Map Shows the Universe's Dark Energy May Be Evolving
Why is it so hard to drill off Earth?
Want to Start a Farm on Mars? This Rover Will Find Out if it's Possible
Which Animal Has Seen the Most Total Solar Eclipses?
The Moon Will Get its Own Time Zone
A New Tabletop Experiment to Search for Dark Matter
NASA Announces Starliner's Next Launch Attempt: May 6
Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock
Start Your Engines: NASA Picks 3 Teams to Work on Lunar Terrain Vehicle
The Large Magellanic Cloud isn't Very Metal
Could We Directly Observe Volcanoes on an Exoplanet?
What's the Earliest the Moon Could Have Formed?
How Animal Movements Help Us Study the Planet
Mapping Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars from Space
A Robot Hopper to Explore the Moon's Dangerous Terrain
Inside a Week to Totality: Weather Prospects, Solar Activity and More
Looking at prospects for eclipse day and totality.
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Want to Leave the Solar System? Here's a Route to Take
Curiosity has Reached an Ancient Debris Channel That Could Have Been Formed by Water
Where Are All These Rogue Planets Coming From?
