Since the discovery of fast radio bursts in 2007, scientists have worked to identify the sources…
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Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar…
The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is. Read more…
Crew Dragon Suffered More Damage Than Expected on Crewed Mission | Digital Trends
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon suffered some unexpected damage during its first crewed mission recently, but the company…
What’s the matter with the Universe? About 31%.
If you want to understand the Universe — and we do — you have to understand…
Astronomers discover “pi Earth” planet that orbits every 3.14 days
Probably it should be called the Pi Planet. Read more at Futurism…
NASA says Artemis astronauts may not visit the lunar South Pole
NASA has had a primary focus for many months on putting astronauts back on the moon…
In A Complete Fluke, A European Spacecraft Is About To Fly Past Venus – And Could Look For Signs Of Life
On Monday, September 14, a team of scientists said they had found evidence for phosphine in…
Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
Aided by a trick of gravity, astronomers have found a normal galaxy. Big deal, right? The…
New Hubble Data Suggests There is an Ingredient Missing from Current Dark Matter Theories
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
Physicist: The entire universe might be a neural network
We live inside a neural network, he says, not a simulation — “but we might never…
Vintage NASA satellite falls to Earth, meets fiery doom after 56 years in space
RIP, OGO-1 satellite. You’ve had a long trip since 1964. Read more at Space.com…
Repeating fast radio burst woke up again on schedule. Now what? | EarthSky.org
FRB 121102 is one of the few known repeating fast radio bursts, and astronomers are trying…
Did life travel between Earth and Mars? New study supports theory of panspermia
Scientists conducted an experiment onboard the International Space Station that supported the controversial theory of panspermia.…
Our Planet Protected Us. Earth ‘Bends’ An Asteroid Just 1,830 Miles Out, The Closest Flyby On Record
It’s now the closest known “non-impacting” asteroid to ever fly by our planet. Read more at…
How Do You Solve a Moon Mystery? Fire a Laser at It
Researchers have used reflective prisms left on the moon’s surface for decades, but had increasingly seen…