First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th

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We're about to reach a milestone that many thought we would never reach. After years of wrangling, cost overruns, threats…

Watch an Entire Flight by Ingenuity, From Take-off to Landing, Covering 704 Meters

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We’ve been keeping close track of Ingeniuity’s progress here at Universe Today. Following the little helicopter that could hasn’t always…

Does a “Mirror World of Particles” Explain the Crisis in Cosmology?

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A mirror universe model might explain why measurements of Hubble constant disagree.

Hubble Sees a Surviving Companion Star After its Partner Went Supernova

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When stars die they’re often not alone, and for the first time astronomers have found a companion to a supernova,…

What is the Best Radiation Shielding for the Surface of Mars?

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A new study takes a look at potential methods for radiation shielding that could inform the creation of Martian habitats

The Early Solar System was Total Mayhem

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There's no question that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young Solar System as rocks, boulders,…

See All Naked Eye Planets This Month… in Order

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June 2022 offers early risers the chance to trace out the naked eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn.

Astronomers Find 116,000 New Variable Stars

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What do two guys from Ohio, the GAIA mission, a worldwide network of ground-based telescopes, machine learning, and citizen scientists…

Objects That Share the Same Orbit are Common in the Solar System. But we’ve Never Seen co-Orbital Exoplanets. Why?

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“Where are all the Trojans” is a question valid in both the study of ancient history and the study of…

A Pulsar has Been Found Turning so Slowly Astronomers Didn't Even Think it was Possible: Once Every 76 Seconds

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Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!