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Join us as we explore the cosmos and some of the most interesting cosmic bodies (places) in the universe.
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Nearly three months after its first flight, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter continues to make history on Mars in its extended mission. What began as a test program has now become a “tradition” that re-occurs once every two weeks.
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Researchers have found new evidence for rogue planets that fly freely in space, rather than revolving around parent stars such…
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A team of researchers from University College London and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has tracked down the source of the bright X-rays that flash on Jupiter every few minutes. Thus, they unraveled the mystery of this phenomenon, the reasons for which remained unknown for the last 40 years. We finally understand Jupiter’s auroras.
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Scientists have found that the possibility to breathe “with a full chest filled with oxygen” became appeared about 2.5 billion years ago and was caused by the impacts of city-sized asteroids.
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According to scientists, the existence of methane in Enceladus plumes they found may be a sign of the existence of life. They hypothesize that an unknown process of methane production may be taking place in the ocean of Enceladus hidden under the ice shell.
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An international group of astrophysicists, led by specialists from the University of Barcelona, discovered a huge population of black holes, which seemed to “lurk” in the globular star cluster Palomar 5 in the Milky Way.
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Hypernova outbursts could be the main suppliers of r-process elements in the earliest stages of galaxy formation. Astronomers came to this conclusion after studying one of the stars in the halo of the Milky Way.
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The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars completed its 9th flight on Sunday, July 4th. The helicopter flew over the uneven terrain for 625 meters in 167 seconds and did not deviate from the calculated destination of the route.
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Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf with unprecedented characteristics. It is simultaneously the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever observed by astronomers.
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A research team from the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) has discovered a mysterious lone cloud that hovers in…
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Observations of thousands of galaxies made with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope (pictured) have revealed a giant arc of…
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It seems that science fiction writers had it all figured out decades ago. We’ve seen movies where habitable planets have…
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Astronomers working with the Parker solar probe have released the first complete image of the circumsolar dust ring along Venus’s…
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Anyone interested in space and the scientific studies about our universe will know about the various theories that we live…
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Physicists have analyzed the gamma radiation of Jupiter for the first time in search of traces of dark matter annihilation. According…
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Is there a connection between dark matter and primordial black holes? What if the mysterious dark matter that scientists struggle…
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Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract for the design, construction, and testing of three spacecraft for…
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Inside the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, global circulation processes can operate, transferring heat and various substances from the bottom…
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In March this year, the SEIS seismograph of the automatic station InSight registered two new intense “Marsquakes”. The source of…
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Scientists have carried out a remarkable study of Uranus, one of the most distant planets in the Solar System. According…
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Earlier in March, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had reached the foot of Mont Mercou on Mars after a…
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Astronomers have found that the first-ever interstellar comet Borisov was also the first observable relic of its planetary system, which…
