Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over 100 years.
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Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar system looked like billions of years ago.
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The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.
NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters to Mars.
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Fiber-optic cables on the moon could detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to study lunar activity and support future Artemis missions.
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NASA has released new Hubble telescope images of the Crab Nebula taken 25 years after the iconic observatory first gazed at the colorful cosmic crustacean.
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“Failed star” brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.
Astronomers captured a colorful new portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, revealing complex clouds of gas in between the galaxy’s 40 billion stars.
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What if the mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ aren’t baby black holes, but rather globular clusters in their messy, glorious formation?
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Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe’s antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos?
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