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First 'intact' planet found circling a dead star — this Jupiter-sized anomaly is in orbit rather than being pulled apart at the seams
This Jupiter-sized anomaly of a planet is part and parcel of a three-star system that lies 80 light…
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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away
Jupiter and Saturn have nothing on these gas giants. The planets are several times more massive and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A primitive star sheds light on how the universe learned to breathe
Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe and essential for life on Earth — or any …
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NASA captures an exploding comet on its hunt for planets outside our solar system
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was on the hunt for planets outside our …
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The first-ever picture of a black hole is fuzzy. These incredible illustrations help explain what it shows.
The black hole weighs about as much as 6.5 billion suns, and the shadow of its event horizon - wher…
Dave Mosher
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Milky Way’s ‘quiet wimpy’ black hole is getting hungrier and brighter
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is normally benign. But, for the first…
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A black hole spewed out material equivalent to 500 Empire State Buildings at nearly the speed of light — and NASA caught it on video
This black hole and its companion star make up the system called MAXI J1820+070 located within t…
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SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet project may create hundreds of visible objects that constantly move across dark night skies
McDowell said the inspiration for his study was hearing a common talking point among staunch defend…
Dave Mosher
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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Hubble telescope caught an asteroid ripping itself to pieces due to the 'YORP effect'
The effect is something like a parent swinging a kid around by her arms; once the parent rotates fa…
Dave Mosher
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4 billion-year-old Grand Canyon-like craters on Mars could have been carved thanks to climate change
At least that's what the research suggests. Now, the scientists will have to find out whether enoug…
Lindsay Dodgson
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This could be the most detailed photo of a ?new? Earth-like planet ever taken
"The new ALMA images show the disc in unprecedented detail, revealing a series of concentric dusty …
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2 nearby exploding stars might have had some surprising effects on our planet
"There was climate change around this time,"Adrian Melott, professor of physics at the University o…
Ali Sundermier
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Evidence of an 'alien megastructure' 1,300 light-years from Earth is rapidly turning to dust
During this effort, multiple volunteers described KIC 8462852 as an "interesting" and even "bizarre…
Dave Mosher
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Supermassive black holes are hiding from astronomers in graveyards of dead stars
"These clouds are traveling so fast that they reach 'escape velocity' and are jettisoned in a cone-…
Dave Mosher
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Mysterious space objects like 'Oumuamua will visit our solar system again. Scientists may intercept the next one with a robotic probe.
In November 2017, Trilling and others published a study suggesting that current telescopes may see …
Dave Mosher
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A serious hunt for aliens around a mysterious star is jumpstarting a new way for us to make contact
"We need to look even more closely at the nearest stars, and that's in preparation for getting read…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers discovered a new component of the Milky Way galaxy that they never expected to find
"All of the 35 classical Cepheids discovered are less than 100 million years old," Dante Minniti, w…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers Spot A Never-Before-Seen Comet-Like Thing In The Sky
Comets, on the hand, are typically made of ice, dust, and rock. When comets gets close to the sun, …