A new study proposes that alien life could evolve from nuclear interactions rather than atomic ones.
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A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black hole and any other celestial object would be.
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It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature.
A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes that:
"The Sun's radiance makes the fix'd stars invisible in the daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well."
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A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
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SpaceX has nailed the hop test once again and the Starship is on its way toward making high-altitude flights and trips to space!
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Astronomers have found a powerful quasar powered by two supermassive black holes.
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Think you know the Canadian space program? A new book may prove otherwise. The book is Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell, out on October 20th, 2020 by ECW Press.
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A machine learning algorithm created by scientists in the UK has confirmed 50 new exoplanets, effectively opening the door to AI-enabled exoplanet studies!
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New research using Hubble archive data shows that GJ 887, the nearby red dwarf star system with two exoplanets, might not be as calm and "boring" as we thought!
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