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Plenty of Examples That Giant Galaxies Like the Milky Way Formed Through Mergers
Chinese Astronomers Detect an Interesting (But NOT Alien) Signal With the FAST Radio Observatory
Unfortunately, China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) did NOT detect possible alien signals, only radio interference from Earth.
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This Tiny Dot is one of the Biggest, Most Active Galaxy Superclusters Ever Seen. It Was Already a Monster Shortly After the Big Bang
Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats
The famous Wow Signal might be a repeating radio burst, and astronomers might soon prove it.
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Charon's Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer
A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes
Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?
Gaia's Massive Third Data Release is out!
The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) has been released, and is already leading to some major breakthroughs in astronomy!
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This Bizarre Terrain on Mars is Caused by Water Ice and Carbon Dioxide
The Moon Could Have Gathered Some of its Water from the Earth's Atmosphere
Want to Own a Meteorite from Geoff Notkin's Personal Collection?
Samples of Asteroid Ryugu Contain More Than 20 Amino Acids
The samples obtained by Hayabusa2 have revealed that the Near Earth Asteroid Ryugu contains 20 strains of amino acids - the buildings blocks of life!
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Once Again, Galaxies Look Surprisingly Mature Shortly After the Beginning of the Universe
Fire Acts Strangely in Microgravity. Astronauts Have Lit More Than 1,500 Fires on the Space Station to Figure Out Why
A Rare Repeating Fast Radio Burst Gives Astronomers a Chance to Study These Mysterious Objects
An international team has come up with a new explanation for Fast Radio Bursts based on their study of a "newborn" neutron star
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This is What the Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Look Like
Using the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Would Let Us See Exoplanets With Incredible Resolution
Two New Rocky Planets Discovered Close to the Solar System
Starship is one Step Closer to Flight
SpaceX just completed its FAA environmental review and is one step closer to conducting orbital test flights!
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See a Stunning New Picture of the Tarantula Nebula
Astronomers Caught Betelgeuse Just Before it Started Dimming and Might Have Seen a Pressure Wave Rippling Through its Atmosphere
Andromeda Tore Apart and Consumed a Neighbor Galaxy
A Perfectly Balanced Rock Seen by Perseverance
China's Lunar Lander Finds Water Under its Feet
Japan's Upcoming Mission Will Use a Vacuum to Get its Sample From Phobos
There Could Be Four Hostile Civilizations in the Milky Way
In a series of papers, amateur astronomer and exoplanet researcher Alberto Caballero narrows down who could have sent the Wow! Signal and how many hostile civilizations could be listening to our transmissions.
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How Do Hot Jupiters Get So Close to Their Stars?
High Altitude Life Can't Explain the Trace Gases in Venus' Atmosphere
A Geologic map of the Entire Moon has Been Released at 1:2,500,000-Scale
ESA Gives Green Light on its Comet Interceptor Mission
After Three Months in Safe-Mode, NASA's Maven Spacecraft Has Been Recovered
After a technical glitch that caused it to enter safe mode, NASA's MAVEN satellites is once again up and running and conducting science operations.
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The Rapid Changes We're Seeing With the Earth's Magnetic Field Don't Mean the Poles are About to Flip. This is Normal
Will Earth's Follies Take Root on Mars? Black Comedy Explores the Frontier
The World's Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), the first telescope of its kind, just came online in northern India!
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Hubble Pins Down the Mass of a Potential Free-Floating Black Hole That's 5,000 Light-Years Away
Do Supermassive Black Holes Prematurely end Star Formation in Some Galaxies?
Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Begin Their Mission of 6 Months in Space
Jupiter is up to 9% Rock and Metal, Which Means it Ate a lot of Planets in its Youth
Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days
A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs
Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser
A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style!
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Which Missions and Observatories can Detect Technosignatures?
Venus Does Have Craters. Here's one
ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia
What's Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs
JWST was Recently Hit by a Surprisingly Large Micrometeoroid
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
NASA has Purchased 5 More Crew Dragon Missions, Keeping the ISS Going Until 2030
To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
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Cosmic Dawn Ended 1.1 Billion Years After the Big Bang
These Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation
