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Move Over, Gravity: Black Hole Magnetic Fields May Have Powerful Pull
It's oft-repeated that black holes are powerful gravity wells, because they represent a dense concentration of matter in one location.…
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Discovered: Two New Planets for Kapteyn’s Star
The exoplanet discoveries have been coming fast and furious this week, as astronomers announced a new set of curious worlds…
Galaxy Violence Revealed! Cosmic Crash Shows Cluster Crunch
Shock waves! Fast-moving particles! Magnetic fields! This image has it all. Behold the merging galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745 about five billion…
Catch the Dramatic June 10th Occultation of Saturn by the Moon
Some terms in astronomy definitely have a PR problem, and are perhaps due for an overhaul. One such awkward term…
‘Mega-Earth’ And Doomed Planets Top Today’s Exoplanet Finds
Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that…
Surprise! Fireballs Light up the Radio Sky, Hinting at Unexplored Physics
At any given moment, it seems, the sky is sizzling with celestial phenomena waiting to be stumbled upon. New research…
Asteroid 2014 KH39 Zips Just 1.1 LD from Earth – Watch it LIVE June 3
Got any plans Tuesday? Good. Keep them but know this. That day around 3 p.m. CDT (20:00 UT) asteroid 2014 KH39 will silently…
There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life
What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life,…
Video: Beyond Neptune, It Sure Is Crowded With Icy Objects
Faster than you can say "trans-Neptunian object" three times, the reaches beyond Neptune's orbit start to fill out in this…
How Much Can Titan’s Sunsets Teach Us About Alien Planets?
Titan -- that smoggy, orangy moon circling Saturn -- is of great interest to exobiologists because its chemistry could be…