The world’s first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars that might host habitable exoplanets.
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There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe’s rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the so-called “Hubble tension.”
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The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail.
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear.
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There’s a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren’t sure whether to classify as “failed stars” or “overgrown planets.”
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Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.
Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system’s eight planets.
A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field.
One of our universe’s biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow ‘hypergiant’ star, and astronomers aren’t sure when it will go supernova.
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