In the last few years, astronomers have begun to realize that our solar system may be visited by interstellar objects
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In the last few years, astronomers have begun to realize that our solar system may be visited by interstellar objects
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NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s
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New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million
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Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland,
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From the tallest peak in Hawaii to a high plateau in the Andes, some of the biggest telescopes on Earth
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There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity’s telescopes can’t see them. The cracks, if they exist, are old —
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Perhaps the greatest discovery to come from the “Golden Age of General Relativity” (ca. 1960 to 1975) was the realization
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In some ways, the most Earth-like world in our solar system (other than Earth, obviously) is Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
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Scientists have redefined the conditions which could make an exoplanet potentially habitable, narrowing down the number of worlds that could
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Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known
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Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of
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