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Why 2023 is a Fine Year for the Geminid Meteors
One of the best meteor showers of the year puts on a fine display in 2023.
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15 Years of Data Reveal the Events Leading Up to Betelgeuse's "Great Dimming"
A Giant Stream of Stars is Flowing in Deep Space
Scientists Found Evidence Of A Nearby Kilonova 3.5 Million Years Ago
What Could a Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Do?
Iran Sent a Capsule Capable of Holding Animals into Orbit.
Did the Last Great Galactic Merger Create the Milky Way's Bar?
About 8-11 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy merged with the Milky Way, adding 50 billion solar masses of stars, gas, and dark matter. The object is known as the "Gaia Sausage" because of the extended stream of stars found using ESA's Gaia mission. Astronomers think the Milky Way's central bar formed roughly the same time as the merger. A new paper suggests that merging with the Gaia Sausage triggers the formation of the Milky Way's bar and the build-up of its disk.
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A Star Near the Center of the Milky Way is a Visitor from Beyond
The International Space Station Celebrates 25 Years in Space
Fly Slowly Through Enceladus' Plumes to Detect Life
OSIRIS-REx Failed to Deploy its Drogue Chute Properly. Now NASA has Figured out Why
In 1872, a Solar Storm Hit the Earth Generating Auroras from the Tropics to the Poles
For its Final Trick, Chandrayaan-3 Brings its Propulsion Module to Earth Orbit
ESA's Ariel Mission is Approved to Begin Construction
Communicating With a Relativistic Spacecraft Gets Pretty Weird
99% of Space Junk is Undetectable. That Could Change Soon
Astronomers Calculate Which Exoplanets Are Most Likely to Have Water
Famed Halley's Comet Passes Aphelion This Weekend
Famous Halley's Comet reaches a distant milestone this coming weekend.
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Another Fast Radio Burst is Coming from a Hypernebula. Also, Hypernebulae are a Thing
This Planet is Way Too Big for its Star
Red Sprites are Best Seen from Space
How Can Astronauts Maintain Their Bodies With Minimal Equipment?
Will Wide Binaries Be the End of MOND?
Europa Clipper Could Help Discover if Jupiter's Moon is Habitable
NASA's Interstellar Mapping Probe Prepares for a 2025 Launch
Does Betelgeuse Even Rotate? Maybe Not
Eris Could be Slushier Than Pluto
A Planetary System With Six Sub-Neptunes Locked in Perfect Resonance
Researchers using TESS and Cheops data found a system with six sub-Neptune-sized planets, all orbiting in direct resonance with each other.
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After Stalling Out for 40 Years, the Largest Iceberg in the World is on the Move
Should We Send Humans to Europa?
Europe is Working on a Multi-Purpose Habitat for the Moon
Hubble is Offline Because of a Problem with one of its Gyros
Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster
Fermi has Found More than 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars
Vera Rubin Will Generate a Mind-Boggling Amount of Data
Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
The New Asteroid Moon Discovered by Lucy Just Got its Own Name
Not Getting Enough Data From Mars? Set Up A Solar System Pony Express
A Gamma-ray Burst Disturbed the Earth's Ionosphere
Should We Send Humans to Venus?
Odyssey Gives Us a Cool New View of Mars
We Should Hit Peak Solar Activity Next Year
It Doesn't Take Much to Get Tilted Planets
A Protoplanetary Disc Has Been Found... in Another Galaxy!
There are Mysterious Polygons Beneath the Surface of Mars
Contact Binary Asteroids are Common, but We've Never Seen One Form. So Let's Make One
China's Space Station, Seen from Orbit
A Detailed Design for a Space Station at Sun-Earth L2
The Solar Radius Might Be Slightly Smaller Than We Thought
Two astronomers use a pioneering method to suggest that the size of our Sun and the solar radius may be due revision.
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Titan Dragonfly is Go!.... for Phase C
