Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially discovered.
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ESA’s Mars Express orbiter captured dramatic new views of a rugged Martian landscape shaped by catastrophic floods billions of years ago.
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An astronaut aboard the ISS captured the brilliant green and pink glow.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the “cosmic web” of galaxies, the largest structure in the universe, with unprecedented detail.
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Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter “butter,” scientists say.
NASA spacecraft Psyche has captured a stunning image of Mars ahead of a flyby on Friday (May 15).
A 3,700-mile-long cloud bank on Venus forms through the same phenomenon that describes how water spreads out in your kitchen sink, scientists say.
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Using AI and Rubin Observatory data, scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernova “standard candles,” hunting for “unknown unknowns” that could lead us to missing ingredients in our recipe of the cosmos and solve the puzzle…
The arctic winds have created something truly stunning.
Fresh satellite images reveal volcanic heat melting snow around Russia’s relentless Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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