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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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Indian scientists spot a galaxy 260 million light-years away that isn't giving birth to any new stars
Galaxies are made up of interstellar gas, cosmic dust, entire solar systems, and stars. Normally,…
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth has detected a 'hum' in the space beyond our solar system
The Voyager 1 probe left our solar system nearly a decade ago. It recently detected a faint hum mad…
Aylin Woodward
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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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Side-by-side photos of the Orion Nebula show how powerful Webb's infrared cameras are. They spot star-forming clouds and gas cocoons Hubble can't see.
A new image of the Orion Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals parts of the nebula tha…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA shared some interstellar fireworks to bring 2020 to an end. The Orion Nebula looks like a rainbow canvas peppered with dots of light.
NASA shares an "image of the day," every day. Its final image for 2020 depicts the Orion Nebula, mo…
Aylin Woodward
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The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. The film c…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA says Voyager 2 is the second human object ever to touch interstellar space - the void between stars
"The sun creates this huge bubble of plasma - ionized material - that goes outward at a million mil…
Dave Mosher
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We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way — and it's giving birth to new stars
A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals that we live next to the largest gas cloud in the galaxy. …
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'Interstellar' Is An Ambitiously Beautiful And Wacky Adventure Into Space
Whenever I watch a Christopher Nolan film I've grown accustomed to obsessively looking for clues in…
Kirsten Acuna
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Here's What It Means When NASA Says Voyager 1 Is In Interstellar Space
The scale is in astronomical units (AU). One AU is equal to the Earth's distance from the sun - abo…
Kelly Dickerson
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Startups are taking on Amazon's cloud with a controversial new plan, but experts warn it could undermine a core pillar of the software industry
In response, three smaller software companies behind some of the open source software that Amazon a…
Rosalie Chan
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Scientists are baffled by a small cloud that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole
Not only did G2 survive, it got a nice boost in speed and is now moving away from the black hole at…
Jessica Orwig
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The Orion constellation star Betelgeuse might actually be two separate stellar bodies, a shocking new study has suggested
Researchers are suggesting that Betelgeuse's strange dimming pattern might be caused by a secret co…
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A mysterious green comet is approaching Earth and could be visible to the naked eye soon. Here's how to see it.
Comet Nishimura is already visible with small telescopes. If it survives the sun, it will be visibl…
Marianne Guenot
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A rogue star could save Earth from extinction in a billion years by knocking it out past Pluto
In around a billion years, the sun will become hot enough to boil all the oceans on Earth. A rogue …
Marianne Guenot
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It should take another 300 years for NASA's Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars.
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012 and is drifting through interstellar space at the edge of …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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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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NASA released stunning new space images by combining the visual powers of the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory
New NASA images of two galaxies, a star cluster, and a nebula use X-ray technology to enhance glimp…
Jacob Zinkula
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …