Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters

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Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into…

We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks

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SETI researchers have directed their search toward interesting star systems where extraterrestrial civilizations could send signals toward Earth. According to…

Astroscale’s Satellite is Now Chasing Down a Real Piece of Space Debris

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Space debris is a thing.. It seems whether we explore the Earth or space we leave rubbish in our wake.…

Can We Survive in Space? It Might Depend on How Our Gut Microbiome Adapts

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For over a century, people have dreamed of the day when humanity (as a species) would venture into space. In…

A New, More Accurate Measurement for the Clumpiness of the Universe

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Cosmologists are wrestling with an interesting question: how much clumpiness does the Universe have? There are competing but not compatible…

Scientists Track How a Giant Wave Moved Through Our Galactic Backyard

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Astronomers say there's a wave rippling through our galactic neighborhood that's playing a part in the birth and death of…

JWST Sees a Milky Way-Like Galaxy Coming Together in the Early Universe

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The gigantic galaxies we see in the Universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers…

The Brightest Object Ever Seen in the Universe

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It's an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months…

Japan's New H3 Rocket Successfully Blasts Off

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Japan successfully tested its new flagship H3 rocket after an earlier version failed last year. The rocket lifted off from…

Gravastars are an Alternative Theory to Black Holes. Here's What They'd Look Like

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Astronomers continue to find more and more evidence of black holes, but there's an alternative theory that could explain the…