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Two new planets 8-times the size of Earth could support life — and they're right next-door
Finding a planet other than Earth to support human life is astronomy’s moonshot project. Two new ‘S…
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First 'intact' planet found circling a dead star — this Jupiter-sized anomaly is in orbit rather than being pulled apart at the seams
This Jupiter-sized anomaly of a planet is part and parcel of a three-star system that lies 80 light…
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An exploding star nova is due to show up in our skies soon. Here's how to spot it.
Our neighborhood nova T Coronae Borealis is due to release a "hydrogen-bomb" worth of energy this y…
Marianne Guenot
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A small star blew up a bigger star's funeral by exploding — but still missing the bullseye
Stars have much longer life spans than humans. Our Sun, for instance, is 4.6 billion years old wi…
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Astronomers have found 7 Earth-size planets circling a dwarf star - and they might harbor life
"But one thing is certain: in a few billion years, when the Sun has run out of fuel and the Solar S…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers have found 7 Earth-size planets circling a dwarf star - and they might harbor life
"But one thing is certain: in a few billion years, when the Sun has run out of fuel and the Solar S…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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NASA's planet-hunter uncovers its first world with two stars 1,300 light-years away
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …
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Dim red stars that are nothing like the sun may be our best hope of finding aliens
"It's a game-changer," Abel Méndez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, …
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk asked Cathie Wood about the Buffett indicator flashing red. The Ark Invest chief explained why she isn't worried.
Wood said the current tech boom differed from the dot-com bubble as unprecedented innovation is und…
Theron Mohamed
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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation of the starship Enterprise by a NASA scientist proves it
However, traveling at a warp factor of 9.9 from one end of the Milky Way galaxy - a body of hundred…
Dave Mosher
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Jupiter came this close to being Earth's second, blood-red sun
The blog Ask a Mathematician/Ask a Physicist tackled this question back in 2011. They concluded tha…
Rafi Letzter
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This is the first photo of a distant star completely destroying an asteroid
"The diameter of the gap inside of the debris ring is 700,000 kilometres, approximately half the si…
Kelly Dickerson
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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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NASA released incredible new animations of a star that exploded with the energy of 100 million suns
In that moment, the fusion-powered core of the star - previously called Sanduleak −69° 202 - began …
Dave Mosher
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Hubble has discovered an alien planet that orbits 2 stars - and that's not the weirdest part
"The ground-based observations suggested two possible scenarios for the three-body system: a Saturn…
Lindsay Dodgson
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There's a twisted reason why this distant star flickers every couple of minutes
"The strength of the pulsations are unprecedented," lead study author Thomas Marsh of the Universit…
Ali Sundermier
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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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There Could Be A Habitable Planet Just 13 Light Years Away From Earth
The researchers don't know if life could exist on such a planet, though, because being closer to yo…
Jennifer Welsh
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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…