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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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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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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon may have a secret ocean, revealing a new category of worlds that could host alien life
One of Saturn's smallest moons wasn't a candidate for alien life. But if Mimas has an ocean, it cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA’s Sun probe sheds new light on our star — here are 5 new secrets it uncovered
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to ge…
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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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A field of water tanks in Mexico is bringing us closer than ever to solving a 100-year-old cosmic mystery
Scientists found another source in the remnants of a supernova in our own galaxy. When a massive st…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA is about to 'touch' a star for the first time - here are the hellish conditions the Parker Solar Probe must survive
The consequence of this orbital dance is that PSP will fall toward the sun faster and faster after …
Dave Mosher
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NASA is gearing up to fly a robot dangerously close to the sun and 'touch' the star
Eugene Parker, a now-89-year-old scientist after whom the probe was named after on May 31, first di…
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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Astronomers have detected 'strange signals' coming from a star 11 light-years away
The radio signals appear to be coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star that's not yet known to have …
Dave Mosher
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Here's A Hypnotizing New Image Of A Mysterious Ancient Star Cluster
The blob of stars hold some mystery to astronomers still. While studying the cluster with Hubble in…
Jennifer Welsh
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Astronomers have solved the mystery of 'strange signals' that appeared to come from a star 11 light-years away
Geostationary satellites orbit the Earth from about 22,236 miles high, which keeps them hovering ov…
Dave Mosher
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A Russian billionaire has launched the smallest-ever spacecraft into orbit - a key step to reaching a nearby star system
"The lifetime of Proxima is several trillion years, almost a thousand times longer than the remaini…
Dave Mosher
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Here's how 'Starkiller Base' - the deadly weapon from 'Star Wars' that can blow entire planets to bits - works
"At incredible velocity and accelerating exponentially, the concentrated volume of quintessence esc…
Anjelica Oswald
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Double Trouble: Sun hurls powerful coronal mass ejections at Earth; radio blackouts, GPS disruptions, auroras likely over the weekend!
The first CME is expected to hit our planet today, October 4, potentially sparking moderate geomagn…
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The sun is at its 11-year maximum. That means another year of eruptions that can endanger satellites, ground flights, and spark stunning auroras.
NASA says the sun is at its maximum and likely to belch out big eruptions that cause technology iss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The beginner's guide to nepo babies
The sky's the limit for the children of the ultrarich. But they tend to gravitate toward these five…
Amanda Yen
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A strange signal from deep space has been detected every 22 minutes for more than 30 years. Scientists have no idea what is causing it.
The signal is thought to come from a dying star emitting energy from its poles. But it's spinning t…
Marianne Guenot
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A mysterious object has been spotted that's 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists can't work out why it hasn't exploded.
An ultraluminous X-ray source spotted 12 million light-years away appears to be breaking the known …
Marianne Guenot
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A huge tornado on the sun released a cloud of hot gas 6 times the size of the Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the moment a cloud of charged plasma escaped the sun and…