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October 13, 2018 Science

The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star

For almost two centuries, scientists have theorized that life may be distributed throughout the Universe by meteoroids, asteroids, planetoids, and

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October 12, 2018 Science

Stephen Hawking’s Final Work Completed and Published by Colleagues

The world lost a great mind when legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking passed away last March. However, it seems that

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October 11, 2018 Science

The Clearest Image Yet Of The Centre Of The Milky Way Galaxy Has Been Released

The clearest image yet of the centre of the Milky Way galaxy has been released from South Africa’s shiny new

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October 10, 2018 News

This New Headset Lets You See VR As Clearly As the Real World

With AR and VR companies racing to build the ultimate headset that can truly embrace mixed reality, a Finnish startup,

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This graphic shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes relative to the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in 2012. Voyager 2 is still in the heliosheath, or the outermost part of the heliosphere.

October 8, 2018 Science

NASA Voyager 2 could be nearing interstellar space

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate

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October 6, 2018 Science

It’s Raining Tiny Particles from Saturn’s Innermost Ring

To distant, Earthling eyes, the gap between Saturn and its rings looks calm, like a deep breath of empty space

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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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