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Massive boulders ejected during DART mission may complicate future asteroid deflection efforts
When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's orbit as intended—it unleashed a massive barrage of boulders that carried more than three times ...
Planetary Sciences
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Astronomers investigate pulsar PSR J1930+1852 and its pulsar wind nebula
Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as PSR J1930+1852 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN). Results of the observational campaign, published ...
How airports like Heathrow and Gatwick could help aliens spot Earth
Radar systems used by civilian airports and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilizations, new research shows.
Astronomy
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Webb telescope reveals long-lived dust shells around multiple Wolf-Rayet stars
Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life emerge. Yet astronomers have long puzzled over where this vast amount of dust comes from and what ...
Astronomy
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Globular clusters: The Vera Rubin Observatory is just getting started
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an intermediate mass black hole in its center like Omega Centauri is expected to have. There are reasons to ...
Astronomy
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When Theia struck Earth, it helped set the stage for life to appear
How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid lifelessness, did our planet become warm, hospitable, and life-sustaining? The answer to these questions is ...
Astrobiology
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An astronaut called a satellite 'impossible'
Not much can surprise someone who partook in four shuttle missions and three space walks during a 36-year career with NASA. Let alone, for someone who has spent their life studying space and space travel, the proposal of ...
Space Exploration
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Is Earth inside a huge void? 'Sound of the Big Bang' hints at possible solution to Hubble tension
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.
Astronomy
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How to use fusion to get to Proxima Centauri's potentially habitable exoplanet
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered a lot of attention, including several missions designed to visit it and send back information. ...
Space Exploration
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Cold hydrogen clouds discovered inside superheated Fermi bubbles at Milky Way's center
Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky Way's center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble formation and reveals that ...
Astronomy
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A new way to wobble: Scientists uncover mechanism that causes formation of planets
Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, spinning cylinders to confirm that an uneven wobble in a ring of electrically conductive fluid like liquid ...
Planetary Sciences
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The surprising link between fast X-ray transients and the explosive death of massive stars
Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The observations reveal that these bright blasts of X-rays may be the result of a "failed" explosive ...
Astronomy
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Study reveals key drivers behind 3D layered structures in open star clusters
Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant progress in understanding how three-dimensional (3D) layered structures form within open star clusters. ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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Primordial black holes could have accelerated early star formation
The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) ...
Astronomy
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Reviving search for extraterrestrial intelligence with high-energy astronomy
What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper submitted to the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Request ...
Astronomy
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Meteorite challenges the timeline of the early solar system
A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held belief that planets ...
'Space ice' is less like water than previously thought
"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, according to a new study by scientists at UCL (University College London) and the University of Cambridge.
Astrobiology
Jul 7, 2025
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Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter
Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the nature of one of the most mysterious and fundamental phenomena in contemporary cosmology: dark matter.
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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Grigoriev 1: New eclipsing variable star discovered in the Pegasus constellation
Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned out to be an eclipsing variable binary. The finding of the new star, which received designation Grigoriev ...
Old Hubble Space Telescope photos unlock the secret of a rogue planet
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a "rogue planet" drifting through space without a host ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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