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Astronomers have calculated the origins of asteroids called Centaurs

April 24, 2020 Science

Population of asteroids beyond Jupiter may be from another star system

In the last few years, astronomers have begun to realize that our solar system may be visited by interstellar objects

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January 24, 2020 Science

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

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January 4, 2020 Science

Scientists 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

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December 12, 2019 Science

ALMA 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

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December 3, 2019 Science

NASA’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,

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November 29, 2019 Science

Two 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

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November 27, 2019 Science

There 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 —

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November 26, 2019 Science

There 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

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November 19, 2019 Science

First 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.

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November 14, 2019 Science

Scientists 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

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November 10, 2019 Science

Nearby “Lensing” Exoplanet Confirmed

Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known

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November 9, 2019 Science

Scientists 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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