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This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile, over a period of just one hour.
A new ESO study says huge satellite fleets could brighten the sky and erase critical telescope observations.
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Webb reveals a warm giant planet orbiting a white dwarf, offering clues to how planets survive after their stars die.
SpaceUniversity of St Andrews scientists discover what will happen when our sun diesJoseph Shavit
GJ 3378 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 2.3 Earths, it takes 21.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.09673 AU from its star.
SpaceNearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for lifeJoseph Shavit
New Horizons data shows the solar wind slows 13% to 15% in the outer heliosphere as it picks up interstellar material.
SpaceAstronomers discover why solar winds gradually slow down on their way out of the solar systemJoshua Shavit
New research finds deep-crater nuclear blasts could deflect dangerous large asteroids faster than direct-impact methods.
SpaceDeep-crater nuclear blasts could defend Earth against asteroidsJoshua Shavit
New study suggests interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS formed about 12 billion years ago in an extremely cold environment.
Space12 billion years old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be older than the solar systemJoseph Shavit
New ultra-black coating cuts stray light on starshades, improving future exoplanet imaging.
SpaceNew ultra-black coating could help astronomers search for alien lifeJoshua Shavit
Juno spotted bead-like auroras on Ganymede, suggesting Earth-like magnetic processes may shape the Jovian moon’s glowing skies.
SpaceStrange beads of light on Ganymede look strikingly like Earth’s aurorasJoseph Shavit
Seismic data suggest Mars built complex magma systems deep underground without plate tectonics, reshaping ideas about habitable worlds.
SpaceEnormous, Earth-like magma systems once existed inside MarsJoseph Shavit
New study argues time may emerge from quantum entanglement rather than exist as a fundamental backdrop.
SpaceTime may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglementShy Cohen
The loudest black hole merger yet revealed a fading signal from near the event horizon, giving astronomers a new way to probe extreme gravity.
SpaceBlack hole collision lets scientists probe the event horizon for the first timeJoseph Shavit
Philosophers argue consciousness may arise in alien bodies or future machines, not just Earth’s flesh-and-blood biology.
SpaceCould alien minds be conscious? A new paper says yesJoshua Shavit
This illustration depicts the Sun-like star TOI-791 and two giant planets that NASA's TESS space telescope discovered in its orbit. These planets, designated TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, are roughly the size of Jupiter
SpaceNASA discovers the ‘puffiest’ two planets in our universeJoseph Shavit
This composite infrared image of Saturn’s moon Titan was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its T-114 flyby on November 13, 2015.
SpaceJWST spots the same unexplained chemical signal on Titan and PlutoJoshua Shavit
A new analysis suggests a ring wormhole could, in theory, form closed timelike curves under the right gravitational conditions.
SpaceWormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists findJoseph Shavit
Asteroid impacts may have shaped early Earth into a network of hydrothermal systems that supported life’s beginnings.
SpaceViolent asteroid impacts may have helped spark life on early EarthJoseph Shavit
Lucy found asteroid Donaldjohanson wobbling, scarred by impacts and rich in water-altered minerals from an ancient breakup.
SpaceNASA’s Lucy spacecraft finds asteroid Donaldjohanson is tumbling through spaceShy Cohen