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Somewhere in the plane of the Milky Way, a dead star is spinning 220 times a second,...
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We are used to thinking of gravitational waves as messengers from catastrophes in space, the ringing of...
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Scientists think a new framework for quantum gravity could offer clues about a mysterious 5th fundamental force...
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Gaetan Thibault from Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada A meteor slices across the Summer Triangle — glowing hot blue...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 14: Irene nears...
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In a recent NASA-supported study, researchers assessed Titan’s resource base and how it could be leveraged for...
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A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade—why are there so few...
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Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of...
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Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15.
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Venus’ extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One...
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Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the...
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The nights surrounding the new moon on June 14 are the perfect time to hunt for planets...
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On June 14, 1949, a rhesus monkey named Albert II was launched into space aboard a V-2...
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"We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation."
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 13: Catch Comet...
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When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those...
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Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series...
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It’s 2134, and humanity has finally embraced green technologies while ridding the Earth of harmful fossil-burning technologies,...