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We Finally Know the Mass of Brand New Neutron Stars

We Finally Know the Mass of Brand New Neutron Stars

JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 3: Supermassive Black Hole...

JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 3: Supermassive Black Holes and Cosmic Noon

Dust Obscures Our View of the Cosmos. Now it's Mapped O...

We see the Universe through a glass darkly, or more accurately, through a dusty ...

Microlightning Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth

When water is sprayed or splashed, different size microdroplets develop opposite...

Astronomers Think They've Found a Reliable Biosignature...

The search for life has become one of the holy grails of science. With the incre...

China's Flagship Space Telescope Launches in 2027. Here...

The China Space Station Telescope, scheduled for a 2027 launch, will offer astro...

What's the Deadliest Part of a Supernova Explosion?

From far enough away, most supernovas are benign. But the thing you have to watc...

One Instrument on the Failed Lunar Lander Did a Little ...

Even tipped over onto its side, the Odysseus Lunar Lander was able to do some sc...

Exploding Stars May Have Caused Two of Earth's Mass Ext...

Supernova explosions are powerful enough to cause mass extinctions if they're cl...

A New Company Plans to Prospect the Moon

Helium-3 (He-3) on the Moon's surface has drawn attention for decades. In 1939, ...

Giant Exoplanets Have Elliptical Orbits. Smaller Planet...

We are so familiar with our solar system that we often presume it is generally h...

Hera Swings Past Mars, Sees Deimos From a New Angle

Gravitational slingshots are now a common part of space missions where the traje...

What Will the Betelgeuse Supernova Be Like - And Will I...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it’s not...

Pallas Has a Very Blue Family

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from o...

JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 2: The Distant Universe

Earlier this week, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announced the s...

A Mars Chopper Mission Over Glaciers and Canyons

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on ano...

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