Watching the Watchers With Nancy Grace Roman

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Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets using the transit technique, watching how distant stars dim as a planet passes in…

Supervillains Take Note. Here’s a New Way to Destroy a Star

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If you're an evil genius supervillain looking to freak out your enemy with a big messy space kablooie, here's a…

Another Key Amino Acid Found in Space: Tryptophan

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Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have…

The Clouds of Venus Could Support Life

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A recent study published in Astrobiology examines the likelihood of the planet Venus being able to support life within the…

Extending Earth's Internet to Mars With Orbital Data Servers

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More spacecraft is due to fly to Mars and will send their data home. Human explorers will want to access…

Early Black Holes Were Bigger Than We Thought

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Every large galaxy in the nearby universe contains a supermassive black hole at its core. The mass of those black…

There Could Be Captured Planets in the Oort Cloud

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The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the…

Mind-Blowing Animation Shows What the World Would Look Like If You Could See Carbon Dioxide Emissions

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It's a strange, eerie-looking place. Carbon dioxide gas appears… and disappears in cycles and bursts throughout the year. It's how…

The Earth’s Rotational Pole has Shifted from All the Groundwater We’ve Pumped Out

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Earth is, in many ways, a water world. Around two-thirds of its surface is covered in water, and the oceans…

Nancy Grace Roman Could Detect Supermassive Dark Stars

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Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even…