Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive black holes in close orbit.
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By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with 3I/ATLAS, which is th…
Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?
Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron star-powered pulsar.
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that challenge our understanding of cosmic evolution.
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The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical “eye of the storm” swirling around supermassive black holes.
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New satellite imagery reveals that Doñana National Park, one of Europe’s most valuable wetlands, is shrinking so rapidly that it could disappear within a human lifetime.
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Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don’t just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate star formation for their neighbors.
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“This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system.”
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by dark matter ever seen.
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