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The Radcliffe Wave is an unbroken stream stars and stellar nurseries 9,000 light-years long — and it may be the biggest structure in the Milky Way.

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Wave of “Stellar Nurseries” May Be Our Galaxy’s Biggest Structure

By Kristin Houser

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.

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Scientists Spot One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever: MAMBO-9

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers developed a new trick that will help them determine whether so-called Earth-like exoplanets actually have their own atmospheres.

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Scientists’ New Trick Can Tell if an Exoplanet Has an Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.

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Astronomers Spot First Galaxy With Three Supermassive Black Holes

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers are finding that the 122 satellites SpaceX has launched so far are already ruining the night sky, showing up as bright trails in observations.

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Astronomers: SpaceX’s Satellites Are Blocking View of Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Not only could SpaceX's satellites interfere with radio wavelengths, they're already proving to be brighter than expected.

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Scientists: SpaceX Satellites Threaten “Astronomy Itself”

By Victor Tangermann

Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by network of unseen forces, forcing them to move with each other in unexpected ways.

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Something Very Strange Seems to Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Cambridge believe a nueral network could solve the three-body problem much faster than existing computer software.

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This Neural Network Quickly Solves a Major Astronomical Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Space exploration gives humanity an opportunity to avoid the mistakes it's made on Earth, but it's clear that won't happen without robust space law.

Astrobiologist: Humans Are Going to Ruin Outer Space

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say new observational equipment could help spot hundreds more interstellar visitors, like 'Oumuamua, every year.

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Scientists Say We’ll Soon Discover More Interstellar Visitors

By Jon Christian

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.

Here’s a Pic of That Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.

An Interstellar Object May Have Just Entered Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have reported finding eight new repeating fast radio bursts, potential alien signals, brining the total number of known repeaters up to 10.

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Astronomers Detect Eight New Potential Alien Signals

By Kristin Houser

Jupiter got hit by something so big on Wednesday that a photographer was able to capture the impact using a telescope in his backyard.

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Something Enormous Just Smashed Into Jupiter

By Kristin Houser

Columbia University's David Kipping thinks we could transform Earth's atmosphere into a planet-sized telescope he'd dubbed the "terrascope."

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Astronomer: We Can Use Earth’s Atmosphere as a Massive Telescope

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.

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NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

Hundreds of protesters in Hawaii blocked the start of construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope observatory, which would be built over cultural landmarks.

Native Hawaiians Protest at New Observatory’s Construction Site

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.

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Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far.

Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It’s Nearby

By Dan Robitzski

Several times a week, short bursts of light appear on the surface of the Moon. Scientists have only been able to guess as to why the phenomenon occurs.

Weird Flashes Keep Appearing on the Moon and Scientists Don’t Know Why

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomers found evidence that 'Oumuamua isn't the only interstellar visitor we've had in recent years. Others may have crashed into the Earth.

An Interstellar Rock Like ‘Oumuamua May Have Hit Earth In 2014

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday morning, an international team of scientists will release the first-ever images of black holes. Quite understandably, scientists are pumped.

Here’s Why Everyone’s so Excited About the Black Hole Image

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

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Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

By Kristin Houser

A distant asteroid named 6478 Gault likely fell prey to the YORP effect — sunlight caused it to spin so fast that it's ripping apart.

Astronomers Just Spotted an Asteroid Ripping Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers says it's found 83 new supermassive black holes at extreme end of the visible universe.

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Astronomers Just Found 83 Giant Black Holes at Universe’s Edge

By Jon Christian

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

By Dan Robitzski

Data collected by NASA and ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory reveals that Earth's gaseous layer extends up to 391,000 miles away from Earth.

New Research: Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Well Beyond the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Despite "less than 0.3% of the budget of large international projects," a team of Japanese astronomers found a tiny object at the edge of our Solar System.

Astronomers Find Rare, Distant Space Object With $3,000 Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists published more data about an exoplanet named K2-22b, just one of three ever observed to be disintegrating in real time.

Astronomers Are Watching as a Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Disintegrates

By Dan Robitzski

Tokyo-based company Astro Live Experiences just launched its experimental prototype satellite that it will use to create a fake meteor shower.

A Startup Is About to Launch a Satellite Full of Fake Shooting Stars

By Dan Robitzski

New research sheds light on how supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of the Milky Way, get so massive. It takes more than just eating stars.

Astronomers Figured out How Supermassive Black Holes Get so Big

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers observed the birth of a new, ultra-dense stellar corpse that could be either a black hole or a neutron star.

Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Birth of a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology discovered a cloud of gas that was created around the time of the Big Bang.

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Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Veloce, a new astronomical tool that can spot Earth-sized planets tightly orbiting dim stars, was just installed in an Australian observatory.

This Upgraded Telescope Hunts Exoplanets Orbiting Dim Stars

By Dan Robitzski

AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens

AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens

By Kristin Houser

Amazon Wants to Mine Data From the (Literal) Stars

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Amazon Wants to Mine Data From the (Literal) Stars

By Kristin Houser

On Tuesday July 31, Mars will come closer to Earth than it will for another 269 years. Take a look now before it moves on.

Stop And Look Up: Mars Is Super Close To Earth Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

Theorized Planet Nine Might Actually Be A Cluster Of Little Rocks

Theorized Planet Nine Might Actually Be A Cluster Of Little Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

There’s New Evidence for the Mysterious “Planet Nine”

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There’s New Evidence for the Mysterious “Planet Nine”

By Dan Robitzski

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

To Measure the Universe’s Expansion, We Might Need New Physics

To Measure the Universe’s Expansion, We Might Need New Physics

It’s Official: Extragalactic Planets Are Real. So What the Hell’s on Them?

It’s Official: Extragalactic Planets Are Real. So What the Hell’s on Them?

By Patrick Caughill

Scientists Are Tracing the Source of One of the Most Mysterious Signals in Space

Scientists Are Tracing the Source of One of the Most Mysterious Signals in Space

Fast Radio Bursts Have a Unique Property That Can Help Us Determine Their Source

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Fast Radio Bursts Have a Unique Property That Can Help Us Determine Their Source

By Kristin Houser

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New Data Finally Reveals That, No, There Is No Alien Megastructure

By Patrick Caughill

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Get Ready to See the Largest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken

By Chelsea Gohd

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The First-Ever Interstellar Asteroid Is the Start of a New Era in Astronomy

Astronomers Just Found the First Interstellar Object From Beyond our Solar System

Astronomers Just Found the First Interstellar Object From Beyond our Solar System

By Christianna Reedy

Gravitational Waves Will Bring the Extreme Universe Into View

Gravitational Waves Will Bring the Extreme Universe Into View

Artificial Light Has Made Life Easier — Unless You’re an Astronomer

Artificial Light Has Made Life Easier — Unless You’re an Astronomer

By Brian Koberlein

New Research Suggests Cosmic Rays Hail From Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

New Research Suggests Cosmic Rays Hail From Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

Astronomers Detect a Storm of Deep-Space Radio Bursts

Astronomers Detect a Storm of Deep-Space Radio Bursts

By Chelsea Gohd

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Researchers Have Just Found the Star System That Caused a Nova Explosion 600 Years Ago

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

The Tectonic Activity of Earth May Be the Key To Supporting Life

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The Tectonic Activity of Earth May Be the Key To Supporting Life

The Heart of a Supernova Revealed Unexpected Clues About How Stars Form

The Heart of a Supernova Revealed Unexpected Clues About How Stars Form

Astronomers Discover That Our Sun Likely Had an “Evil” Twin That Killed the Dinosaurs

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Astronomers Discover That Our Sun Likely Had an “Evil” Twin That Killed the Dinosaurs

By Patrick Caughill

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Mysterious Signals From Space Continue to Baffle Scientists

Research Indicates That Most Habitable Planets Might Be “Water Worlds”

Research Indicates That Most Habitable Planets Might Be “Water Worlds”

By Patrick Caughill

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Astronomers Found an Enormous Object Orbiting at the Edge of Our Solar System

Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

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Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

By Patrick Caughill