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There might be a secret massive black hole in our galaxy that scientists didn’t know about till now!
We have found evidence for the second-biggest black hole in our Milky Way, challenging our understa…
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Venus has Earth-like plate tectonics, indicating possibility of hosting life once
Venus, known as a scorching wasteland of a planet, may have once had tectonic plate movements simil…
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It may have been the Sun that sent water to Earth
Contributing author and director of Curtin University's Space Science and Technology Centre (S…
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Increasing global warming and light pollution levels could severely affect ground telescope observations
The new Thirty-Metre-Telescope will be an international collaboration between India and four of the…
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A mysterious object 1 billion light-years away is sending out a 'heartbeat' radio signal from deep space
Astronomers detected a pulse of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, in a faraway galaxy. The si…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Researchers successfully grew plants in Apollo-era lunar soil. Their work could inform future space farmers.
Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers say a new type of stellar explosion on distant dead stars — called 'micronova' — could be plentiful in our universe
Using NASA satellite data, researchers observed a new class of stellar explosion, which is similar …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers discovered a 'spooky' spinning object in our galactic backyard, emitting some of the strongest radio beams in the sky
Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A black hole warped space-time so much that astronomers saw flashes of light from its far side
Albert Einstein predicted that black holes warp space-time, and astronomers just saw the proof - fl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New satellite images show the Arecibo Observatory before and after its violent collapse in Puerto Rico
Satellites orbiting Earth took photos of the Arecibo Observatory before and after the famous radio …
Dave Mosher
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Mo…
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SpaceX broke a record by launching 180 satellites in 1 month — accelerating Elon Musk's project to blanket Earth in high-speed internet
SpaceX's newest satellites sport sun visors — an effort to reduce their brightness in the night sky…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A car-size asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn't see it coming
The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it's now the closest known e…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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The Perseid meteor shower, which NASA says is the best of the year, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to catch it.
The Perseids meteor shower, considered the year's best, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to watch th…
Susie Neilson
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Over 100 new minor planets found at edge of solar system
Astronomers have discovered more than 100 new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located…
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A comet may have melted one of the world’s oldest civilisations to a crisp at more than 2,200 degrees Celsius
Abu Hureyra, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, might have been crushed by cosmic collisi…
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Elon Musk now claims SpaceX's Starlink satellites will have 'zero' impact on astronomy, but research contradicts him
"Some people get a little excited because when the satellites are first launched they're tumbling a…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites could make astronomy on Earth 'impossible' and create a space-junk nightmare, some scientists warn
"A 5% failure rate is actually better than most historical constellations, particularly for this si…