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September 22, 2019 Science

Where Do Black Holes Lead?

So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What could possibly await should — against all odds

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Loki Patera, an active lava lake, is the large shield-shaped black feature in this image of Jupiter's moon, Io.

September 19, 2019 Science

An Enormous Volcano in Space Is About to Erupt, Scientists Say

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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The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a) and companion galaxy (M51b). This Hubble Space Telescope image represents a merger between two galaxies similar in mass to the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

January 4, 2019 Science

Catastrophic galactic collision could send Solar System flying into space

New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky

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An image obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope of the planetary nebula M3-1, the central star of which is actually a binary system with one of the shortest orbital periods known.

October 25, 2018 Science

Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebula

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other

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October 21, 2018 Science

First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created In Space

An international team of physicists reports that they have successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time. In

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October 16, 2018 Science

Anomalously Huge Planets Have Been Detected Orbiting a Bafflingly Young Star

A wee baby star at the tender age of just 2 million years has revealed itself to be quite the

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October 15, 2018 Science

NASA Discovered A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets

Scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of

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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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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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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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September 23, 2018 Science

Astronomers Just Detected Matter Falling Into A Black Hole At 1/3 The Speed Of Light

An incredible series of observations performed by a UK team has revealed the first detection of matter falling into a

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September 19, 2018 Science

A Mysterious Pulsar Is Sending Strange Emissions Really Far Into Space

Most stars are just out there in space, doing their star thing, but not the pulsar called RX J0806.4-4123. It’s

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