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Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material...
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Comet 220P flares back into binocular visibility. It has been a busy month for astronomy. In the...
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In 1969, Roger Penrose (yes, that Penrose, the one who would later win a Nobel Prize) worked...
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A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The...
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The principle of vacuum birefringence, a quantum effect first predicted almost 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg,...
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NASA and its commercial partners are making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on...
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Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of...
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Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water...
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Multiple space agencies are gearing up to send missions to the Moon in the near future. These...
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Long period radio transients (LPTs) are mysterious signals coming from objects inside our galaxy. They’re highly polarized,...
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Over the last three decades, computer models of forming planetary systems have gone from being fairly crude...
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A SpaceX Falcon upper stage crashed into the Moon on August 5th when their orbits brought them...
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Both of Mars’ moons are oddballs. They’re small and lumpy like potatoes, and for a long time,...
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Stars are a critical piece of the larger cosmos. They’re engines of nucleosynthesis, forging the elements—and the...
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The Americas take center stage for next Thursday night’s deep partial lunar eclipse. So, did you miss...
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(This is Part 4 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read...
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The Carina Nebula (NGC 3324), located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel), is...
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Something’s wetting the surface of dwarf planet Pluto along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, and planetary...
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When astronomers studying the Milky Way’s center found a group of stars orbiting the center very rapidly,...
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It seems the overwhelming majority of the time when we write about satellite megaconstellations, it’s as a...