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Our solar system might have once ejected a giant planet that now wanders among the stars, much like the lonely world illustrated here.

October 5, 2018 Science

Orbital Forensics Hint at Sun’s Long-Lost Planet

Our solar system is like a 4.6-billion-year-old crime scene. Crater-ridden surfaces, misaligned planetary orbits and streams of interplanetary debris are

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A supernova (bright spot at lower left) and its host galaxy (upper center), as they would appear if gravitationally lensed by an intervening black hole (center).

October 5, 2018 Science

Black Holes Ruled Out As Universe’s Missing Dark Matter

For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope

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Artist's impression of the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, transiting the star, with the candidate exomoon in tow.

October 4, 2018 Science

Astronomers find first compelling evidence for a moon outside our solar system

A pair of Columbia University astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler Space Telescope have assembled compelling evidence for

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October 3, 2018 Science

Hypervelocity alien stars could be invading the Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a population of incredibly fast-moving stars bearing down on the Milky Way. It is possible that these

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October 1, 2018 Science

Four newly discovered Milky Way neighbors

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe, and

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October 1, 2018 Science

Scientists Think They’ve Finally Found The Crushing Limits of Gravity Humans Could Survive

They don’t call Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ‘The Mountain’ for nothing. In 2015, the strong man and Game of Thrones actor

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September 29, 2018 Science

Astronomers Capture the Sharpest Image yet of a Monster Galaxy 12.4 Billion Light Years Away

Looking back 13-billion years into our universe’s past, a group of scientists first discovered the monster COSMOS-AzTEC-1 galaxy using the

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September 28, 2018 Science

Astronomers Are Looking For Signs Of Alien Life In The Andromeda Galaxy

A group of astronomers has taken the first steps to looking for alien life in the Andromeda galaxy as part

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September 28, 2018 Science

Making head or tail of a galactic landscape

Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture a dramatic image of an enormous tail of hot

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Brazilian researchers dated the families using a numerical simulation method to process current data to go back in time to the asteroid formation era

September 27, 2018 Science

Four extremely young asteroid families identified

Four families of extremely young asteroids have been identified by researchers affiliated with São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Guaratinguetá,

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September 27, 2018 Science

SpaceX and ispace Plan to Send Robots to the Moon by 2020

Japanese lunar exploration robotics firm ispace announced today its plans for its first two lunar missions scheduled for 2020 and

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Artist concept for a futuristic starship.

September 26, 2018 Science

The Possibility of Interstellar Travel

Mankind depends on exploration. We long to satisfy our curiosity for what lies in every direction, expanding trade routes and

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