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Finland becomes 53rd country to join the Artemis Accords for moon exploration
Finland just became the Artemis Accords' 53rd member nation, bolstering NASA's efforts to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration.
When you wish upon a star, is it already dead? An astronomer crunches the numbers
The stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think.
'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests
Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests.
3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."
Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes
The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.
Charon: Pluto's dwarf planet partner
Reference As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system.
Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.
How 'quantum foam' may have inflated the early universe
For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.
