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A NASA team has recreated the atmosphere of a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet, similar to this artist's rendition of WASP-18b

March 16, 2019 Science

NASA lab brews up alien atmospheres here on Earth

Earth’s pleasant, life-giving atmosphere is turning out to be somewhat of an oddity. With almost 4,000 planets so far discovered

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March 11, 2019 Science

Researchers uncover additional evidence for massive solar storms

Solar storms can be far more powerful than previously thought. A new study has found evidence for the third known

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March 7, 2019 Science

Gamma Ray Telescopes could Detect Starships Powered by Black Hole

In the course of looking for possible signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI), scientists have had to do some really outside-of-the-box

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February 28, 2019 Science

3 explanations for ‘Oumuamua that aren’t alien spaceships

The first known interstellar visitor to the solar system is keeping astronomers guessing. Ever since it was spotted in October

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Two merging galaxies known as Arp 302, also called VV 340

February 28, 2019 Science

Decade long study sheds light on “killer” galactic mergers

Images taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are providing insight into the phenomenon of “killer” galaxies that, when they merge,

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CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK A massive collision that left Neptune’s second largest moon, Proteus (as seen in the background of this illustration) with a huge crater may have spawned its smallest moon, Hippocamp (foreground).

February 21, 2019 Science

Neptune’s smallest moon may be a chip off another moon

Neptune’s smallest moon may be a chunk of a neighboring moon that was knocked off by a comet. One of

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An illustration of the newly discovered white dwarf and its ring system

February 20, 2019 Science

Ancient white dwarf with rings calls star system evolution into question

Normally, peering deep into space lets astronomers see into the distant past, but a new discovery has now given us

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February 15, 2019 Science

Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?

Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of

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February 8, 2019 Science

A Star’s Outburst is Releasing Organic Molecules Trapped in the ice Around it

According to widely-accepted theories, the Solar System formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago from a massive cloud of dust and

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The Sun's corona - its outermost layer of atmosphere.

February 7, 2019 Science

Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun

New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings

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HAZY HAVEN Titan may get its hazy atmosphere (shown in natural color in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft) from organic molecules warmed by the decay of radioactive elements in the moon’s core.

February 1, 2019 Science

Titan’s oddly thick atmosphere may come from cooked organic compounds

Titan may have a home-baked atmosphere. Saturn’s largest moon gets some of its thick atmosphere by cooking organic molecules in

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The Compact Muon Solenoid detector is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, designed to observe any new physics phenomena that the LHC might reveal.

January 30, 2019 Science

International team of physicists continues search for new physics

Dark matter, which is thought to account for nearly a quarter of matter in the universe (but has yet to

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