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Astronomers have discovered that a white dwarf star bears a never before seen metal "scar" near one of its magnetic poles.
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite, after almost three decades in orbit, finally met its end this week.
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By Frank Landymore

The Wall Street Journal reports that US officials are warning Putin to refrain from launching Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Odysseus makes its final approach to the Moon, not all is going according to plan.
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By Jon Christian

Known as the Radcliffe Wave, astronomers have discovered that this chain of stars, gas, and dust is propagating like a wave, too.
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By Frank Landymore

Russia may be launching its nuclear anti-satellite craft into space soon — even as its own government denies that such a weapon exists. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The anti-satellite space weapon Russia is said to be developing could potentially destroy low-Earth orbit for everyone.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

This suggests that stars could be playing a bigger role in the evolution of our planet's orbit — and climate — than once believed.
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By Frank Landymore

New research posits that life originated somewhere in the cosmos — and that it traveled through space on tiny particles of cosmic dust.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

CNN reports that Russia is working on a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to generate a huge energy wave that would knock out satellites.
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By Jon Christian

This tasty cosmic sandwich is a star surrounded by a protoplantery disk that we're seeing at an incredibly rare angle.
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By Frank Landymore

The spacecraft, developed by Varda Space Industries, has spent over a year in space manufacturing protein crystals used to develop drugs.
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By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.
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By Victor Tangermann

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.
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By Victor Tangermann

Departing Astronauts Leave Sticky Brown Surprise in Space Station
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By Sharon Adarlo

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say
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By Sharon Adarlo

Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive, defunct satellite is set to come crashing through the Earth's atmosphere and plummet to the surface below in a matter of weeks.
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By Victor Tangermann

Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.
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By Victor Tangermann

Things have gone from bad to worse for Voyager 1, which has been out of contact with its Earth-bound mission control for months now.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta told New Scientist that asteroid Bennu may have been "an ancient ocean world."
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By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.
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By Victor Tangermann

There are a bunch of dancing objects hanging out in space with no stars — and two of them seem to be giving off some weird radio waves.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat dubbed LIFE — and it was all part of the plan.
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By Victor Tangermann

After leaving the Pentagon, the government's former head UFO hunter is sounding off about all things unidentified.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have observed an object that's far heavier than any known neutron star, but too light to be classified as a black hole.
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By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious exoplanet that orbits its star some 160 light-years away — which has a 350,000-mile-long tail.
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By Victor Tangermann

Japanese start-up EX-FUSION plans to use a powerful laser pulse to literally stop space junk in its tracks, safely de-orbiting it.
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By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.
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By Victor Tangermann

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.
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By Frank Landymore

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.
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By Frank Landymore

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped detect something remarkable: the strongest and oldest radio transmission ever recorded.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The Peregrine lunar lander had on board the human remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and others on its failed mission to the Moon.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Videos show what appears to be a pair of Chinese rocket boosters crashing in inhabited areas in the country's Sichuan province.
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By Victor Tangermann

Some members of Congress are going to get a briefing on UFOs soon — though of course, the public won't be privy to anything they learn.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.
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By Victor Tangermann

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.
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By Victor Tangermann

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.
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By Victor Tangermann

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are hard at work sifting through samples from an ancient asteroid, and what they've found so far has been fascinating. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been nearly 40 years since Halley's comet last flew by Earth — and very soon, it will be headed back our way.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio was accused of eating a tiny tomato that was grown on board the space station. It has now been found.
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By Victor Tangermann

A massive hole opened up in the Sun's atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak.
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By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station is celebrating its 25th birthday even as NASA prepares to put it out to pasture. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered an impossibly large planet that's apparently too big to exist based on all known science.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have come up with a solution to the "Hubble tension," arguing that Einstein didn't consider we're in the middle of a cosmic void.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope is in "safe mode" due to a recurrent technical issue, which has taken the 30-something craft offline.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The six exoplanets in this star system revolve in perfect mathematical ratios relative to each other, in what's known as oribital resonance.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.
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By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that there are regions on Mercury that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A dead star is still emitting powerful flares of blue light — a fascinating discovery offering a glimpse into a rare type of star death.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.
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By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers can confirm that there's a rocky exoplanet just a couple dozen light years away.
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By Frank Landymore

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.
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By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.
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By Frank Landymore

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about the ethics of astronaut cannibalism.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Bolstering future deep space ambitions, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station showed off their space-cultivated veggies.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! The Juno spacescraft captured a spooky image of a grimacing "face" in Jupiter's clouds.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gamma ray burst triggered by colliding neutron stars, one of the brightest explosions ever, created tellurium and other heavy elements.
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By Frank Landymore