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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...
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Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel! In our first installment, we examined attempts to realize...
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One of the surprises delivered by the JWST concerns the sizes of early galaxies. The powerful telescope...
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Remember the “Wow!” signal? That high energy radio signature happened in 1977, when the Earth was much...
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(This is Part 3 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read...
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After decades of hypothesizing about the origin of life here on Earth, at least one astrobiologist and...
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The Milky Way’s galactic center is dominated by its supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius A-star (Sgr. A*)....
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When a new star forms, a rotating disk of material forms around it called an accretion disk....
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Of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Callisto is the one that gets the least attention. Io is constantly...
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Gravitational wave astronomy has seen plenty of improvements since the original signal was captured in 2015. Despite...
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(This is Part 2 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read...