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Astronomers have uncovered concrete evidence of the earliest known galactic merger in the Milky Way's history, whereby our home galaxy devoured a dwarf galaxy nearly 12 billion years ago to fuel its initial growth spurts.
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NASA is funding the development of small, lighter-than-air "aerobots" equipped with solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters designed to swarm and navigate the unexplored, subterranean cave networks of Saturn's largest moon, Titan...
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For the first time, astronomers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream outside the Milky Way, giving scientists a new way to map invisible dark matter in distant galaxies.
Located approximately 115 million light-years from...
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Another group of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are adding more proof to the existence of a brand-new class of celestial object dubbed the “black hole star.” The team believes that this object could solve an...
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Scientists have released the largest 2D color map of the universe ever created, complete with a high-res view of nearly four billion celestial objects spanning three-quarters of the night sky.
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The intrepid James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning infrared view of a dynamic planetary nebula roughly 4,200 light-years away in the constellation Gemini (NGC 2392), with its latest images revealing intricate dusty...
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Using the world’s most powerful solar observatory, astronomers have captured the sharpest images of the Sun’s surface ever, uncovering a dynamic, microscopic fluid process that addresses some of solar physics’ longest-standing...
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SpaceX set off some financial fireworks in the markets after reporting a surge in quarterly revenue alongside an exclusive hardware commitment with NVIDIA, even as rising capital expenditures temporarily weighed down its stock.
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Mark your calendars and prepare your travel itineraries, because on August 2, 2027, some parts of the world will witness a special solar eclipse. Although almost no one in the U.S. will see it (unless you live in the north-eastern part of...
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A leftover three-ton SpaceX rocket stage is set for an unavoidable collision course with the Moon at a speed of 5,400 mph (or seven times the speed of sound) in the early hours this Wednesday, August 5.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered an extraordinary, sea-like expanse of geometric honeycomb patterns on Mars, providing novel evidence of how liquid water might have shaped the planet eons ago.
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Way in the outskirts of a galaxy 750 million light-years away, astronomers have caught an unlucky star being torn apart by a rogue supermassive black hole that has drifted more than 30,000 light-years from its host galaxy’s...
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Attention stargazers, late July brings a special double-feature to the summer night sky: the Full Buck Moon coinciding with a simultaneous peak of two meteor showers.
Reaching peak brightness on July 29, July’s moon is traditionally...
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Firefly Aerospace plans to run artificial intelligence workloads in lunar orbit later this year, and the silicon doing the heavy lifting comes from NVIDIA. The Jetson edge AI platform will fly aboard Firefly's Elytra spacecraft on Blue Ghost Mission 2, targeted for launch in late 2026, marking...
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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture cosmic 'bullets' streaming from V445 Puppis, a unique stellar explosion in the Milky Way firing clumps of gas into space at a blistering 20 million miles per hour.
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For ages, astronomers have categorized the skies into tidy buckets: stars, planets, and moons. However, a new object 71 light-years from us could completely disrupt that thinking.
A team of astronomers led by Kevin Hoy of Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales and the European Southern...
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has captured a rather mesmerizing time-lapse video of Mars during its recent high-speed gravity assist flyby, offering a different view of the Red Planet’s craters, vast rust-red deserts, and polar ice caps as the probe slingshots toward its main objective: the...
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For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the presence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s habitable zone, marking a major milestone in the search for life beyond our solar system.
Located 49 light...
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Astronomers have uncovered one of our cosmic neighborhood's most famous star systems, revealing a third planet that has evaded discovery for more than a decade. The newly-discovered world, Beta Pictoris d, resides 63 light-years away in...
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In a study published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers has detected the first true sugar molecule in interstellar space, giving us a clue that sugar can exist way before planets begin to form.
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The federal government is looking to the ocean to solve a growing stress point in the commercial space industry. As part of a fresh initiative, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is exploring whether hundreds of abandoned...
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Intel has announced its Starfire 18A node SoC built for orbital and deep-space applications. Designed explicitly for the U.S. government to satisfy stringent size, weight, power, and cost constraints, this heavy-duty processor merges...
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