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Comet gateway discovered to inner solar system, may alter fundamental understanding of comet evolution

A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive

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The “most powerful volcano” in the solar system—located on Jupiter’s moon Io—erupts at unusually regular intervals, according to research. In

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Twenty years ago, almost to the day, two competing teams of astronomers independently discovered the first known transiting exoplanet—a world

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A pulsar 25,000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted it more

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All comets might share their place of birth, new research says. For the first time ever, astronomer Christian Eistrup applied

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A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped a dreamy photo of NGC 5307, a dying, sun-like star that has collapsed

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Everybody wants a wormhole. I mean, who wants to bother traveling the long-and-slow routes throughout the universe, taking tens of

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Two large asteroids are set to sail safely past Earth next tomorrow, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies

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Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the

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NASA is moving ahead with an ambitious mission to explore a moon of Jupiter and discover whether it could support

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Astronomers have detected a gravitational wave signal that appears to have been caused by a black hole swallowing a neutron

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