Meet Pandora, NASA’s New Mission To Find Distant Alien Water Worlds
NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...
Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
NASA close to probing alien atmospheres; Here's all you need to know
Pandora, a small satellite, is set to study at least 20 known exoplanets to analyze their atmospheres for hazes, clouds, and ...
X-Ray Flares Turn Alien Worlds Into Cosmic Battlefields
Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...
Ghost Galaxies Revealed: Stunning New Discoveries Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...
An astrophysicist warns of an unprecedented supermassive black hole: “We’ve never seen this”
Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.
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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'
A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...
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Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
Gialich said, “Probably not.” The president of the American Astronomical Society, Dara Norman, published a letter in September calling for better transparency among space operators.
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Supermassive black hole displays ‘unprecedented’ X-ray outbursts
Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...