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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An Ancient Star Cluster
Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (…
Randy Astaiza
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Astronomers Witness The Birth Of The Milky Way's Most Massive Star
"The remarkable observations from ALMA allowed us to get the first really in-depth look at what was…
Agence France Presse
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New Mapping Techniques Will Help Us Find The Next Earth
"The most exciting part of this result is that we were able to make these observations of an exopla…
Jennifer Welsh
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Atomic oxygen found sandwiched between layers of sulphurous clouds On Venus
Researchers found that the temperature of atomic oxygen on Venus ranged from –120°C on the day side…
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A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…
Marianne Guenot
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New James Webb Space Telescope photos of Jupiter show stunning auroras, faint rings, and tiny moons
The powerful infrared telescope captured images of Jupiter's auroras, which are the brightest in th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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10 times NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted something Hubble missed
With its infrared gaze, the James Webb Space Telescope can capture galaxies, planets, moons, and au…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Stars are being born next to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in a stunning new image by the world's largest airborne telescope
The world's largest airborne telescope — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFI…
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NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA says the discovery could support deep-space exploration efforts. It will share the findings in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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NASA's powerful new space telescope will be named after Nancy Grace Roman — the agency's first female executive, known as the 'mother of Hubble'
Nancy Grace Roman was told she couldn't do science. She became NASA's first woman executive and mad…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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The moon is sprinkled with patches of frozen water, NASA scientists discovered. Mining it may be crucial for travel to Mars and beyond.
NASA may need to mine water from the moon to send astronauts into deep space. Two new studies indic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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After Congress' first hearing on UFOs in 50 years, some scientists want to be let in on the investigation
To better understand unidentified objects in the sky, we need to use satellites, fast-tracking came…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A stunning photo shows both red-sprite and blue-jet lightning in the skies above Hawaii
An observatory in Mauna Kea photographed a "red sprite" and "blue jet" during a storm. These lightn…
Aylin Woodward
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics discover three supermassive black holes merging together
The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laborat…
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Uranus is hiding 13 invisible rings. These images captured their warm glow for the first time.
"We already know that the epsilon ring is a bit weird, because we don't see the smaller stuff," Mol…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists have detected oxygen on Mars - and it could reveal something fascinating about the planet's past
SOFIA, which flies between 37,000 and 45,000 feet above sea level, actually measured about half the…
Ali Sundermier
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Astronomers just found more than 70 'invisible' galaxies lurking in the deepest, darkest patch of the night sky
Some of the studies describe the techniques used, but others reveal 72 previously undetected galaxi…