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Striking pictures show the ISS crossing a sunspot big enough to swallow two Earths during a spacewalk
The images were captured as astronauts Steve Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg had begun a spacewalk …
Marianne Guenot
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NASA videos reveal explosive events on the sun: a polar vortex of plasma, an X flare, and an eruption from the north pole
NASA first caught a strange polar vortex on the solar north pole. A big eruption and flare followed…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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5 times scientists thought they may have discovered aliens
UFOs aren't screaming "aliens" to scientists. Close calls in the hunt for extraterrestrials include…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years, and they could tell astronomers what will happen after our sun blows up
Stars die because they eventually burn through their reserves of hydrogen and helium. That fuel cre…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A group of supermassive black holes is behaving very strangely - and it could shed light on the formation of the universe
The finding, which has never been predicted by cosmological theories, came as a surprise to the res…
Ali Sundermier
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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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NASA scientists created 21 new constellations for the invisible night sky - including Albert Einstein, Godzilla, and Starship Enterprise
What we see is only a rainbow of visible light: a limited slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, an…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers are listening for alien signals from a weird object that's flying through the solar system
"'Oumuamua's presence within our solar system affords Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach u…
Dave Mosher
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A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid bigger than Earth's tallest skyscraper is about to fly near our planet
"We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately," Paul Ch…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers say they've discovered the largest magnetic fields in the universe
When clusters of galaxies collide, their billions of stars and trillions of planets rarely make con…
Dave Mosher
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Mark Zuckerberg still dreams of space, but there's no escape from Earthly problems
The Athena launch is likely the first of what will be many more by Facebook. As the company has not…
Alexei Oreskovic
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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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NASA just filmed a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid flying near Earth, and it may be 2 times bigger than thought
A "planetary defense" mission may sound like the plot of a science fiction blockbuster, but NASA is…
Dave Mosher
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Google has a new plan to wipe out spam calls
It's based on the same caller ID tech already available in the app. Previously, it would highlight …
Rob Price
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NASA just released a haunting video of Jupiter's clouds
"Thirteen hours of radio emissions from Jupiter's intense auroras are presented here, both visually…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists detected ripples in space and time from a potentially new class of collision in the universe. Their observatory cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.
It goes like this: As neutron stars move toward each other, a tiny bit of their material gets shot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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This alcohol-laced comet spewed 500 wine bottles' worth of booze per second
So tracing the ingredients for the origin of life all the way back to comets and asteroids that for…
Kelly Dickerson
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Brexit hasn't put Amazon off the UK
In addition to the R&D centres, Amazon is also building a new UK headquarters in Shoreditch, wi…
Sam Shead
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A weird, cigar-shaped object flew through the solar system last year. Now astronomers may know where it came from.
By comparing the historic path of 'Oumuamua against these millions of stars, the team discovered fo…