The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has had a big week already. The group's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the Moon a few days…
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NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has already made some incredible discoveries in its first couple of years in service, but its latest find will definitely look…
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Earth has managed to avoid any truly catastrophic impacts from objects in space for quite some time, but that doesn't mean material from the cosmos…
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Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in…
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Figuring out how our reality took shape over billions of years is no easy task for scientists. Theories about how the Big Bang played out…
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At the heart of our home galaxy is a supermassive black hole that gobbles up anything that gets too close. It's huge, with a mass…
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New exoplanet discoveries have been popping up with increasing regularity in recent years thanks to technological advances that allow scientists to spot evidence of their…
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The Hubble Space Telescope is really, really good at spotting distant objects in space, but it's just as well-suited for catching a snapshot of planets…
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We're rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's much-hyped mission to "Touch the Sun" with its Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft is…
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Age is a relative thing. With our finite (and relatively short) lifespans, humans tend to think of anything older than 100 years as being "really…
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Considering we can't actually see the Milky Way from the outside — since, you know, we're in it — astronomers know a surprising amount about…
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Humans don't yet possess the technology required to visit neighboring stars, but astronomers can still learn a great deal about them just by looking. The…
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If you were to make a list of exoplanets that would be worth visiting in person, WASP-121b wouldn't be anywhere near the top of your…
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The idea seems totally crazy: A spacecraft with no active propulsion system that can travel through space using light in the same way that a…
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In its 15 months of service, NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has racked up many exciting exoplanet discoveries, but few show promise in the search for…
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NASA's Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was…
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NASA's TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — has been scanning the skies for a little over a year now and it's already returned a…
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Thanks to powerful telescopes that can detect large objects at extreme distances, we earthlings have a pretty good idea of the space rocks that pose…
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Thanks to the nature of light and the fact that it can only move so fast, peering at objects far away means that astronomers can…
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Humans have never set foot on Mars, but that's not stopping scientists from doing their best to understand what it might be like when that…
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When NASA and other space agencies from around the world eventually send humans back to the Moon in the coming decades they'll likely be doing…
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For astronomers, discovering new worlds, stars, and even entire galaxies is really only half the battle. Once discovered, explaining how new features of space formed,…
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Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director and a huge driving force behind the mission that eventually sent astronauts to the Moon, died just days after…
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India's Space Research Organization expected to launch its Chandrayaan-2 mission last week, pushing the country one big step closer to becoming the fourth country to…
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Today is an important day for China's space agency. No, the country isn't launching anything new into space, and in fact, it's sort of the…
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As NASA slowly inches towards the day when it can finally send human travelers to Mars, scientists are doing their best to make sure those…
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These days, scientists think they have a pretty good idea of what the universe is made of. By detecting the telltale signatures of various elements…
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