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Alien life could survive on Earth-like planets circling dead stars, study suggests
By Robert Lea Published
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
By Robert Lea Published
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What were Stephen Hawking's greatest contributions to science?
By Paul Sutter Published
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How do spiral galaxies get 'feathers'? All it takes is a little gravity
By Paul Sutter Published
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'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how
By Kiona N. Smith Published
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Mars madness! Perfect NCAA tournament bracket wins you a trip to the Red Planet on SpaceX's Starship
By Mike Wall Published
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Euclid space telescope's 1st results reveal 'a goldmine of data' in search for dark matter and dark energy (images, video)
By Robert Lea Published
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Black holes
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Hidden monster black hole in the galaxy next door fired stars at us like million mph cosmic bullets
By Robert Lea Published
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How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer
By Robert Lea Published
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Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays
By Robert Lea Published
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Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video)
By Robert Lea Published
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James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)
By Robert Lea Published
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Black holes: Everything you need to know
By Nola Taylor Tillman Last updated
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Black holes vibe together in a cosmic love story for Valentine's Day written in the stars
By Robert Lea Published
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Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen — where did it come from?
By Robert Lea Published
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Black holes could 'bend it like Beckham' to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe
By Robert Lea Published
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Exoplanets
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
By Robert Lea Published
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4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors
By Keith Cooper Published
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Does exoplanet K2-18b host alien life or not? Here's why the debate continues
By Perri Thaler Published
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Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction'
By Robert Lea Published
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
By Robert Lea Published
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NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission
By Mike Wall Published
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
By Robert Lea Published
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
By Keith Cooper Published
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'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
By Robert Lea Published
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Galaxies
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How do spiral galaxies get 'feathers'? All it takes is a little gravity
By Paul Sutter Published
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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers
By Keith Cooper Published
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Astronomers discover misshapen galaxy is a cosmic predator that bears 'scars' from its last meal (photo)
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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Astronomers discover 'Quipu,' the single largest structure in the known universe
By Stephanie Pappas Published
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Scientists find hints of the dark universe in 3D maps of the cosmos
By Keith Cooper Published
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Dark Energy Camera captures thousands of galaxies in stunning image
By Victoria Corless Published
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Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe
By Robert Lea Published
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Running Chicken Nebula glows in gorgeous new image from Very Large Telescope in Chile
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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Solar System
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'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how
By Kiona N. Smith Published
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Mars madness! Perfect NCAA tournament bracket wins you a trip to the Red Planet on SpaceX's Starship
By Mike Wall Published
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What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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Watch the sun set over the moon in epic video from private Blue Ghost lunar lander
By Mike Wall Published
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
By Paul Sutter Published
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The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms
By Andrew Jones Published
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Farewell, Blue Ghost! Private moon lander goes dark to end record-breaking commercial lunar mission
By Mike Wall Published
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
By Paul Sutter Published
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Mars could have an ocean's worth of water beneath its surface, seismic data suggest
By Keith Cooper Published
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Stars
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Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets
By Robert Lea Published
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'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision
By Keith Cooper Published
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Some planet-forming stars never 'grow up' and lose their 'Peter Pan' disks
By Nola Taylor Tillman Published
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Mysterious cosmic lights turn out to be 2 undiscovered supernova remnants
By Victoria Corless Published
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Scientists 'dust for fingerprints' around a young star as it births exoplanets
By Robert Lea Published
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What are boson stars — and what do they have to do with dark matter?
By Paul Sutter Published
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A young star may soon disappear: Inside the great dimming of T Tauri
By Keith Cooper Published
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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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The fastest-spinning 'vampire star' we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode
By Robert Lea Published
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More about The universe
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Euclid space telescope's 1st results reveal 'a goldmine of data' in search for dark matter and dark energy (images, video)
By Robert Lea Published
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Reference
What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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Watch the sun set over the moon in epic video from private Blue Ghost lunar lander
By Mike Wall Published
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