It might be hard to believed that a phenomenon as eye-catching as aurora could go undocumented, but in 2016 a
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It might be hard to believed that a phenomenon as eye-catching as aurora could go undocumented, but in 2016 a
Continue readingLife may have arisen in our solar system before Earth even finished forming. Planetesimals, the rocky building blocks of planets,
Continue readingAstronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing a discrepancy between the two
Continue readingWhen it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those
Continue readingIf you’re planning to go boating on Saturn’s moon Titan, bring your lengthier anchor cables. Based on radar data returned
Continue readingA nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm
Continue readingGlobular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Messier 3, is commonly
Continue readingA few decades ago, we didn’t know if there were any planets outside our solar system. Thanks to advances in
Continue readingYou’re looking at the brand-new, first-ever close-up picture of a black hole. This image of the black hole M87 at
Continue readingIn the past three decades, almost 4,000 planet-like objects have been discovered orbiting isolated stars outside the solar system (exoplanets).
Continue readingFor over fifty years, scientists have theorized that roughly 85% of matter in the Universe’s is made up of a
Continue readingWhen it comes to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of
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