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Comets Leave Dusty Trails That Surround the Solar System
Want to Learn More About Dark Matter? Send an Atomic Clock Close to the Sun
If dark matter exists in our solar system, atomic clock spacecraft might reveal its presence.
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Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew
Astronomers Have Found Two Temperate Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Red Dwarf
There's a Giant Magma Plume on Mars, Bulging the Surface out Across a Vast Region
Scientists find more evidence that a magma plume could exist beneath Elysium Planitia, proving Mars might still be volcanically active
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Trading Spaces: How Swapping Stars Create Hot Jupiters
Meteorites Bathed in Gamma Rays Produce More Amino Acids and Could Have Helped Life get Going on Earth
SpaceX Launches 'Starshield'. A Quiet Announcement With A Huge Potential
Colliding Neutron Stars can Generate Long Gamma-ray Bursts
"Early Dark Energy" Could Explain the Crisis in Cosmology
A new study considers how the presence of Early Dark Energy could help resolve one of the biggest cosmological mysteries today.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Find the Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts
The Geminids Will be Peaking on December 14th. They're Usually the Most Active Meteor Shower Every Year
Will We Ever Go Back to Explore the Ice Giants? Yes, If We Keep the Missions Simple and Affordable
A new Hubble Image Reveals a Shredded Star in a Nearby Galaxy
Evidence of a Megatsunami on Mars
Not Just Stars. Gaia Mapped a Diverse and Shifting Universe of Variable Objects
Mars at Opposition 2022: The Full Moon Occults Mars Wednesday Night
A rare event transpires Wednesday night, as the Full Moon occults Mars near opposition.
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Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array
SOFIA Fails to Find Phosphine in the Atmosphere of Venus, But the Debate Continues
Hubble Spots Two Open Clusters. One is Also an Emission Nebula
Ground Telescopes can Adapt to Satellite Megaconstellations if They get Accurate Telemetry Data
Want to Colonize Space? Unleash the Power of Microbes
By Looking Back Through Hubble Data, Astronomers Have Identified six Massive Stars Before They Exploded as Core-Collapse Supernovae
Using images from the Hubble Snapshot Program and archival data, a team of astronomers has located the progenitor stars of six supernovae.
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Maybe we don't see Aliens Because They're Waiting to Hear a Signal From us First
NASA Wants to Build Landing Pads on the Moon
One of the World's Biggest Radio Telescopes is Hunting for Signals From Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Scientists Simulate a Wormhole, NASA's Moon Infrastructure, China's Space Station Crew
How Do Stars Get Kicked Out of Globular Clusters?
NASA Releases Another Supercut of the Artemis I Mission, Showing the Launch and Flight Past the Moon
NASA has released a second supercut video of the Artemis I mission that captures the mission highlights
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New Images of Titan From JWST and Keck Telescopes Reveal a Rare Observation
A Black Hole Consumed a Star and Released the Light of a Trillion Suns
Sometimes Astronomy isn't About What you see, but What you don't see
SpaceX's Super Heavy Fires 11 of its Engines in a Long-Duration Test
SpaceX conducted another static fire test with its BN7 prototype, this time firing up eleven of its Raptor 2 engines.
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"Good Night Oppy" Beautifully Illustrates the Unbreakable Bond Between Humans and our Robotic Explorers
Do Exoplanet Scientists Have Favorite Exoplanets?
With a Small Network of Satellites Around Mars, Rovers Could Navigate Autonomously
Scientists Send Quantum Data Through a Simulated Wormhole
Tiny Cubesat Will Shine an Infrared 'Flashlight' Into the Moon's Shadowed Craters, Searching for Water Ice
It's Feeding Time For This Baby Star in Orion
Mauna Loa is Erupting for the First Time in 40 Years. Here's What it Looks Like From Space.
Should We Build a Nature Reserve on Mars?
NASA Releases a Stunning New Supercut of the Artemis I Launch
Two Great Globular Clusters Seen by Hubble: Pismis 26 and Ruprecht 106
What if we're truly alone?
Astronomers Detect the Faint Glow of Stars in Between Galaxies
Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
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BlueWalker 3 is a Cellphone Tower in Space and One of the Brightest Objects Ever Launched. Astronomers Aren't Happy.
Quasars Produce Giant Jets That Focus Like Lasers. Why They Focus is Still a Mystery, but it's not Coming From the Galaxy Itself
Baby Gas Giants Cast Shadows on Their Siblings
The Technique for Detecting Meteors Could be Used to Find Dark Matter Particles Entering the Atmosphere
