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Pushing A Probe To Alpha Centauri Using A Relativistic Electron Beam
If We Want to Live on Other Worlds, We're Going to Need New Clocks
There Were Over 260 Orbital Launches in 2024. A New Record
New Study Explains How Mars Dust Storms Can Engulf the Planet
Student Team Designs 2U CubeSat with Big Ambitions
This Fast Radio Burst Definitely Came From a Neutron Star
Since the first fast radio burst (FRB) was discovered in 2007, astronomers have been puzzling over their source. These bright radio flashes come from seemingly random directions across the universe. Finally, astronomers have pinned down one FRB to a specific neutron star in a galaxy about 200 light-years away. The FRB was unleashed from a region within 10,000 km of the neutron star and probably emerged from its magnetosphere.
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NASA Scientists Discover "Dark Comets" Come in Two Populations.
Could There Be Bacteria Living on Mars Today?
Could Habitable White Dwarf Planets Retain Their Oceans? Maybe.
Some white dwarfs have planets, but to be habitable worlds they would need to hold on to their oceans during the star's red giant stage.
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Is There a Fundamental Logic to Life?
Using an Oil Industry Framework to Map Space Resources
The Webb Captures Spectra of Trans-Neptunian Objects, and Reveals a History of Our Solar System
Trans-Neptunian Objects are the icy remnants of our early solar system. Part of their history can be found in the spectra of molecules and dust on their frozen surfaces.
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This Particle Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction
Crisscrossing Dust Devil Tracks Across the Surface of Mars
A Long-Term Lunar Infrastructure Hub Named After the Object That Created the Moon
New Study of Supernovae Data Suggests That Dark Energy is an Illusion
Dark energy is central to the standard model of cosmology, but the Timescape model suggests dark matter doesn't exist.
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New Glenn Completes a Hotfire Test. Next... Flight?
A Young Exoplanet's Atmosphere Doesn't Match its Birthplace
The Quadrantid Meteors and More Ring in 2025
A New Mission Watches Meteoroids Hit the Far Side of the Moon
Even Stars Can Get the Hiccups
Hotter White Dwarfs Get Puffier
NASA to Probe the Secrets of the Lunar Regolith
NOIRLab Launches Collection of Hi-Res Images of 88 IAU-recognized Constellations
Saturn's Rings Might Be Really Old After All
Covering an Asteroid With Balls Could Characterize Its Interior
New Image Revealed by NASA of their New Martian Helicopter.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Makes its Record-Breaking Closest Approach to the Sun
Meteor Showers May One Day Help Protect Humanity!
NASA is Considering Designs and Simulations to Prepare Astronauts for Lighting Conditions Around the Lunar South Pole
Neutron Stars With Less Mass Than A White Dwarf Might Exist, and LIGO and Virgo Could Find Them
Theoretically a neutron star could have less mass than a white dwarf. If these light neutron stars exist, we might detect them through the gravitational waves they emit during a cataclysmic merger with another star.
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Webb Observes Protoplanetary Disks that Contradict Models of Planet Formation
James Webb's Big Year for Cosmology
A Mission to Dive Titan's Lakes - and Soar Between Them
Top Astronomy Events for 2025
Is the Universe a Fractal?
How Did Black Holes Grow So Quickly? The Jets
A current mystery in astronomy is how supermassive black holes gained so much heft so early in the Universe. Black holes have been seen in the first billion years after the Big Bang with hundreds of millions of solar masses, defying current models of their growth. Now, astronomers have a clue. They observed a bright jet coming from a type of supermassive black hole called a blazar, which interacts with surrounding gas, helping to drive it into the maw of the black hole.
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Quantum Correlations Could Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
M87 Releases a Rare and Powerful Outburts of Gamma-ray Radiation
Astronomers Find a Black Hole Tipped Over on its Side
NASA is Developing Solutions for Lunar Housekeeping's Biggest Problem: Dust!
Where's the Most Promising Place to Find Martian Life?
Can Entangled Particles Communicate Faster than Light?
IceCube Just Spent 10 Years Searching for Dark Matter
Star Devouring Black Hole Spotted by Astronomers
What Makes Brown Dwarfs So Weird?
Archaeology On Mars: Preserving Artifacts of Our Expansion Into the Solar System
Building the Black Hole Family Tree
Many of the black holes astronomers observe are the result of mergers from less massive black holes. Using gravitational waves, we can observe two black holes coming together and their combined remnant. But can astronomers observe a black hole and work out the masses of the objects that came together? Can we build a black hole's family tree? In a new paper, researchers propose that the nearby environment puts limits on the kinds of black holes that can merge.
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Need to Accurately Measure Time in Space? Use a COMPASSO
A Binary Star Found Surprisingly Close to the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have already discovered many stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*. Now, researchers have announced they've found a binary star system in the vicinity too. This is surprising since Sgr A* tears at nearby stars with its ferocious tidal forces, and you'd expect binary stars to be separated from one another after too many close flybys. Well, there they are, still a pair after millions of years.
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