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An article from Science News Dec 2020
Hayabusa2’s asteroid dirt may hold clues to the early solar system
An article from Science News Dec 2020
Astronomers spotted colliding neutron stars that may have formed a magnetar
An article from Science News Nov 2020
STEVE may be even less like typical auroras than scientists thought
An article from Science News Nov 2020
The Milky Way makes little galaxies bloom, then snuffs them out
An article from Science News Oct 2020
LIGO and Virgo’s gravitational wave tally more than quadrupled in six months
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid
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A spherical star cluster has surprisingly few heavy elements
An article from Science News Oct 2020
The asteroid Bennu’s brittle boulders may make grabbing a sample easier
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EHT data show turbulence makes the glowing ring around M87’s black hole wobble
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Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched
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Dark matter clumps in galaxy clusters bend light surprisingly well
An article from Science News Aug 2020
In a first, astronomers spotted a space rock turning into a comet
An article from Science News Aug 2020
‘Exotic’ lightning crackles across Jupiter’s cloud tops
An article from Science News Jul 2020
This is the first picture of a sunlike star with multiple exoplanets
An article from Science News Jul 2020
A giant underground motion sensor in Germany tracks Earth’s wobbles
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Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light
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Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years
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Salty water might exist on Mars, but it’s probably too cold for life
An article from Science News May 2020
Planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbor life
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Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
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Quantum mechanics means some black hole orbits are impossible to predict
An article from Science News Mar 2020
Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last
An article from Science News Mar 2020
How slime mold helped scientists map out the cosmic web
An article from Science News Mar 2020
Even a weird hypernucleus confirms a fundamental symmetry of nature
An article from Science News Feb 2020
An ancient galaxy grew massive — then oddly stopped making stars
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These are the most detailed images of the Sun ever taken
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Tiny meteorites suggest ancient Earth had a carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere
An article from Science News Jan 2020
A 2.2-billion-year-old crater is Earth’s oldest recorded meteorite impact
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Phosphorus, a key ingredient of life, has been found in a newborn star system
An article from Science News Dec 2019
Electric charges on dust grains may help explain how planets are born
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How two gamma-ray bursts created record-breaking high-energy photons
An article from Science News Oct 2019
The solar system may have a new smallest dwarf planet: Hygiea
An article from Science News Oct 2019
Strontium is the first heavy element detected from a neutron star merger
An article from Science News Oct 2019
With 20 new moons, Saturn now has the most of any solar system planet
An article from Science News Oct 2019
A new image reveals the structure of the cosmic web
An article from Science News Sep 2019
Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem
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Einstein’s general relativity reveals new features of a pulsar
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Iron sulfide may be keeping Mercury’s core toasty and its magnetic field alive
An article from Science News Aug 2019
Giant, active galaxies from the early universe may have finally been found
An article from Science News Jul 2019
Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate
An article from Science News Jun 2019
Astronomers may have spotted the ghost galaxy that hit the Milky Way long ago
An article from Science News Jun 2019
The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last
An article from Science News May 2019
Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the Moon may be tectonically active
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Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold
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Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists
An article from Science News Apr 2019
Saturn’s moon Titan sports phantom hydrocarbon lakes
An article from Science News Apr 2019
The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics
An article from Science News Apr 2019
The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on
An article from Science News Mar 2019
Surprising astronomers, Bennu spits plumes of dust into space
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Hidden ancient neutrinos may shape the patterns of galaxies
An article from Science News Feb 2019
Supernovas show the universe expands at the same rate in all directions
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A space rock collision may explain how this exoplanet was born
An article from Science News Jan 2019
The latest picture of Ultima Thule reveals a remarkably smooth face
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A cosmic flare called the ‘Cow’ may reveal a new way that stars die
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New Horizons shows Ultima Thule looks like a snowman, or maybe BB-8
An article from Science News Dec 2018
Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space
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Scientists’ collection of gravitational waves just got a lot bigger
An article from Science News Nov 2018
NASA’s InSight lander has touched down safely on Mars
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A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice
An article from Science News Oct 2018
The first observed wimpy supernova may have birthed a neutron star duo
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Hubble may have spotted the first known exomoon
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The first rovers to explore an asteroid just sent photos home
An article from Science News Aug 2018
New Horizons may have seen a glow at the solar system’s edge
An article from Science News Jul 2018
Mars (probably) has a lake of liquid water
An article from Science News Jul 2018
A high-energy neutrino has been traced to its galactic birthplace
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Astronomers snap the first baby pictures of a planet
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Mars got its crust quickly
An article from Science News Jun 2018
Einstein’s general relativity reigns supreme, even on a galactic scale
An article from Science News Jun 2018
Magnetic fields may be propping up the Pillars of Creation
An article from Science News May 2018
Never-before-seen dunes on Pluto spotted in New Horizons images
An article from Science News May 2018
Another hint of Europa’s watery plumes found in 20-year-old Galileo data
An article from Science News May 2018
New ideas about how stars die help solve a decades-old mystery
An article from Science News May 2018
Neutron stars shed neutrinos to cool down quickly
An article from Science News Apr 2018
Last year’s solar eclipse set off a wave in the upper atmosphere
An article from Science News Apr 2018
The latest star map from the Gaia spacecraft plots 1.7 billion stars
An article from Science News Apr 2018
This meteorite’s diamonds hint that it was born in a lost planet
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Einstein’s general relativity reveals new quirk of Mercury’s orbit
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The search for mysterious dark matter underdogs steps up
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Dark matter is MIA in this strange galaxy
An article from Science News Mar 2018
Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so big so fast
An article from Science News Mar 2018
Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may be water worlds
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4 surprising things we just learned about Jupiter
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Massive stellar flare may have fried Earth’s nearest exoplanet
An article from Science News Feb 2018
A rare rainstorm wakes undead microbes in Chile’s Atacama Desert
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An amateur astronomer caught a supernova explosion on camera
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The way dwarf galaxies move puts a new spin on galaxy formation
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Gravity doesn’t leak into large, hidden dimensions
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Massive dust storms are robbing Mars of its water
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Trio of dead stars upholds a key part of Einstein’s theory of gravity
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Fast radio bursts may be from a neutron star orbiting a black hole
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Aliens ruled out for why Tabby’s star flickers
An article from Science News Dec 2017
The Sun’s outer atmosphere is far more complex than previously thought
An article from Science News Dec 2017
AI has found an 8-planet system like ours in Kepler data
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The most distant quasar ever spotted hails from the universe’s infancy
An article from Science News Nov 2017
Simulating the universe using Einstein’s theory of gravity may solve cosmic puzzles
An article from Science News Nov 2017
This star cheated death, exploding again and again
An article from Science News Oct 2017
An interstellar asteroid might have just been spotted for the first time
An article from Science News Oct 2017
What detecting gravitational waves means for the expansion of the universe
An article from Science News Oct 2017