The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system’s early history.
The sun’s visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar cycle might be heading toward its quieter phase.
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Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.
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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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