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 witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s
Continue readingScientists find evidence that Venus has active volcanoes
New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on
Continue readingALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million
Continue readingNASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland,
Continue readingTwo Interstellar Intruders Are Upending Astronomy
From the tallest peak in Hawaii to a high plateau in the Andes, some of the biggest telescopes on Earth
Continue readingThere Might Be Cracks in the Universe — But We Can’t See Them from Earth
There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity’s telescopes can’t see them. The cracks, if they exist, are old —
Continue readingThere Could be Planets Orbiting Around Supermassive Black Holes
Perhaps the greatest discovery to come from the “Golden Age of General Relativity” (ca. 1960 to 1975) was the realization
Continue readingFirst global map of Titan highlights oceans, plains, dunes and mountains
In some ways, the most Earth-like world in our solar system (other than Earth, obviously) is Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
Continue readingScientists Narrow Down Number of Exoplanets Which Could Host Alien Life
Scientists have redefined the conditions which could make an exoplanet potentially habitable, narrowing down the number of worlds that could
Continue readingNearby “Lensing” Exoplanet Confirmed
Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known
Continue readingScientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding
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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