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Ceres’ Surface Is Much More Complex Than Previously Thought

The dwarf planet Ceres has a surface that seems to get more perplexing with each new study. A recent paper…

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NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands complete in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center…

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How do you study an invisible exoplanet? Astronomers discover planetary ‘fingerprints’ in the rings around stars

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the…

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Are the JWST’s Early Overrmassive Black Holes Just Normal-Range Outliers?

The JWST found an abundance of overmassive black holes at high redshifts, pushing the limits of black hole (BH) science…

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Shockwaves from dying stars may sculpt ‘cosmic wagon wheel’ stellar nurseries, simulations reveal

3D simulations reveal how shockwaves from stellar explosions and winds may carve hub-and-spoke structures in molecular clouds, shaping star formation…

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Astrobiology’s Looming Statistical Crisis

Multi-billion dollar space telescope programs aren’t only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature “lies, damn lies, and statistics”. Or…

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‘The Lone Gunmen’ at 25: the underrated ‘X-Files’ spin-off that aspired to be ‘Mission: Impossible’ with geeks

Conspiracy theories, print media, and James (sorry, Jimmy) Bond collide in an all-too-brief extension of Mulder and Scully's world.

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Rocket goes boom, satellite cameras zoom: Explosive Blue Origin damage is visible from space

Satellites zoomed-in on the aftermath of the New Glenn rocket explosion at Blue Origin's LC-36 launchpad, and the extent of…

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NASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Near Houston

NASA’s C-20A research aircraft takes off from the Edwards Air Force Base runway on an envelope-expansion flight test with the…

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The Filamentary Funnels That Form Stars

The universe is full of fascinating structures, and some of the most striking take shape inside the giant clouds where…

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