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James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a year

New research from astronomers at the University of Washington uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory

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Neutron stars are not only the most dense objects in the Universe, but they rotate very fast and regularly. Until

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The Hubble Space Telescope is like an old dog that is constantly teaching the astronomical community new tricks. In the

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Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements

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If you look around space, you’ll notice a lot of things — the planets, stars, moons, even the galaxy itself

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Flying on other worlds is the next leap in the exploration of our solar system. The Mars Helicopter will piggyback

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Here in this isolated corner of the Milky Way, our Earth-bound human lives might seem tiny and parochial on a

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With the Artemis mission scheduled to put boots on lunar regolith as soon as 2024, NASA has a lot of

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On October 19, 2017, astronomers discovered the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. First spotted by the

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A huge one-off burst of mysterious cosmic radio waves has been precisely located to a galaxy 3.6 billion light years away. The powerful shiver of

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The Kepler mission and its extension, called K2, discovered thousands of exoplanets. It detected them using the transit technique, measuring

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Martian clouds could have an alien origin, according to a newly-published paper. The study suggests that mid-level clouds form above

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