Universe Today
Dust Seen Streaming Out of Namibia Into the Atlantic Ocean
Wow! An Actual Picture of Multiple Planets Orbiting a Sunlike Star
SpaceX Finally Catches Both Halves of a Falcon 9 Fairing
SpaceX achieved another milestone when the payload fairings used for the ANASIS-II mission were both caught by ships at sea with nets!
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Astronomers are Starting to Find Planets in Much Longer Orbits. Cooler, More Habitable Planets
It Looks Like There are Still Active Volcanoes on Venus
Organic Matter Could Have Delivered Earth's Water
A ring of high-energy particles surrounding a black hole suddenly disappeared
Review: Unistellar's New eVscope
There's no finder, and often no eyepiece… and 'goto' is as simple as the push of a virtual button. Welcome to the new generation of smartscopes. The new crop of telescopes promise to put the Universe and the night sky at your fingertips, or at least, on your smartphone screen.
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A Black Hole Popping Out of a Traversable Wormhole Should Give Off a Very Specific Signal in Gravitational Waves
Supercomputer Simulation Shows a Supernova 300 Days After it Explodes
They're In! The First Images From ESA's Solar Orbiter
James Webb Completes a Comprehensive Systems Test for the First Time
The James Webb Space Telescope just passed the critical Comprehensive Systems Test (CST), bringing it a step closer to its Oct. 2021 launch date!
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A Neptune-class exoplanet has been found with its atmosphere stripped away
Roman Space Telescope and SOFIA Get Their Funding Restored... Again
A Star had a Partial Supernova and Kicked Itself Into a High-Speed Journey Across the Milky Way
Mount Everest, Seen from Space!
Astronomers Do the Math to Figure Out Exactly When Johannes Vermeer Painted this, More than 350 Years Ago
What Shuts Down a Galaxy's Star Formation?
A new study finds that while black holes drive the formation of galaxies, they are also what kills them in the end.
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The Moon Might Have Formed a Little Later than Originally Believed
A new study indicates that the Moon is actually younger than we thought, and wasn't finished forming until the Earth's core was finished too.
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Curiosity Is Going To Spend Its Summer Driving Around a Dangerous Sandy Region on Mars
