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Astronomers Find the Most Massive Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Seen
What's the Best Way to Pack for Space?
Webb Sees a System That Just Finished Forming its Planets
When a young star begins forming, it's spinning rapidly, surrounded by a flattened disk that grows its future planets. Once the star can ignite fusion in its core, its stellar winds kick in, clearing out the remaining gas and dust, starving its planets for material. Now, JWST has found an older star in this exact phase of the cycle, dispersing its gas into interstellar space. This limits how much larger the planets can become until no material remains.
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Webb Sees a Surprisingly Active Galaxy When the Universe Was Only 430 Million Years Old
Juno Measures How Much Oxygen is Being Produced by Europa
The LIFE Telescope Passed its First Test: It Detected Biosignatures on Earth.
Massive Stars Have the Power to Shape Solar Systems
Grabbing Samples from the Surface of Mars
Astronomers Can See the Impact Site Where an Asteroid Crashed Into a White Dwarf
When a star like the Sun reaches the end of its life, it becomes a red giant and blows away its outer layers, leaving an exposed core - a white dwarf. What happens to its planets? Some were consumed when it became a red giant; others could spiral inward and impact the star. Astronomers have found white dwarfs that were polluted with metals in the past, but now they've found one with a metal scar on its surface, where a large, metal-rich asteroid crashed onto the surface.
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Curiosity Rover is Climbing Through Dramatic Striped Terrain on Mars
A Giant Gamma-Ray Bubble is a Source of Extreme Cosmic Rays
New Study Addresses how Lunar Missions will Kick up Moondust.
How Warm Are the Oceans on the Icy Moons? The Ice Thickness Provides a Clue.
NASA Tests the New Starship Docking System
China Has Built a Huge Space Simulation Chamber
The International Space Station's Air Leaks are Increasing. No Danger to the Crew
Planetary Atmospheres: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
How Startups on Earth Could Blaze a Trail for Cities on Mars
This Planet-Forming Disk has More Water Than Earth's Oceans
When an Object Like 'Oumuamua Comes Around Again, We Could be Ready With an Interstellar Object Explorer (IOE)
Astronomers Build a 3D Map of Dust Within Thousands of Light-Years
How We Get Planets from Clumping Dust
A Nova in the Making: Will T Coronae Borealis Pop in 2024?
If predictions are correct, a key outburst star could put on a show in early 2024.
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Odysseus Is Shut Down After Sending Snapshots From Moon Landing
Dwarf Galaxies Banished the Darkness and Lit Up the Early Universe
Watch the Varda Capsule's Entire Fiery Atmospheric Re-Entry
An AI Simulated Interactions Between Different Kinds of Advanced Civilizations
Ingenuity Won't Fly Again Because It's Missing a Rotor Blade
Comets: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
DART Made a Surprisingly Big Impact on Dimorphos
See the Dramatic Final Moments of the Doomed ERS-2 Satellite
Mars Had its Own Version of Plate Tectonics
Planets in Binary Star Systems Could be Nice and Habitable
New Moons Found at Uranus and Neptune
Some Intelligent Civilizations Will Be Trapped on their Worlds
China Names its Capsule and Lander for its Upcoming Human Lunar Missions
If Exoplanets Have Lightning, it'll Complicate the Search for Life
Electrodes in Spacesuits Could Protect Astronauts from Harmful Dust on Mars
Odysseus Moon Lander Sends More Pictures — and We Know Where It Is
Astronomers Discover a New Meteor Shower. The Source is Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Surprise! Japan's SLIM Moon Lander Wakes Up After a Freezing Night
Titan Probably Doesn't Have the Amino Acids Needed for Life to Emerge
What Kinds of Astronomy Could Be Done With a Telescope on the Moon?
The Kuiper Belt is Much Bigger Than We Thought
A Planetary Disk in the Orion Nebula is Destroying and Replenishing Oceans of Water Every Month
Brrr. JWST Looks at the Coldest Brown Dwarf
Cosmic Dust Could Have Helped Get Life Going on Earth
The early Earth didn't have many chemicals needed for life on its surface, but they were present in asteroids and comets. Astronomers think they were delivered by countless objects crashing into the planet early in its history. But there's also a constant rain of organic-rich cosmic dust entering the Earth's atmosphere, and some can even pile up into sedimentary deposits left behind by glaciers. Did cosmic dust help fertilize prebiotic chemistry?
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Odysseus Moon Lander Is Tipped Over But Still Sending Data
Finally! Webb Finds a Neutron Star from Supernova 1987A
A Capsule With Antiviral Drugs Grown in Space Returns to Earth
