James Webb Space Telescope Scheduled For December 2021 Launch
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ESA and NASA have approved a new date for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope – December 18,…
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Origins of Ultradiffuse Galaxies Explained
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Astronomers have analyzed the formation of ultradiffuse galaxies using cosmological simulations. It turned out that some of the quiescent representatives of…
A Mystery Source at Our Galaxy’s Center is Emitting Flashing Radio Signals
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An international team of astronomers discovered a mysterious object located near the center of the galaxy and emitting radio signals…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Spots Unexpected Surface Details on Asteroid Ryugu
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Data from the Japanese interplanetary station Hayabusa2 indicate that fine-grained dust may exist on the asteroid Ryugu, which is part…
NASA’s Mars Rover Extracts First Rock Samples In Second Attempt
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The Perseverance rover received a sample of Martian soil on its second try, as indicated by images taken by the…
Scientists Spot Mystery Deep Space Object in the Milky Way
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Astronomers have figured out the properties of the unusual brown dwarf WISE 1534-1043, nicknamed “The Accident.” It turned out to…
Scientists Close to Cracking Secrets of Venus’ Giant Dark Cloud
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Planetary scientists have figured out the nature of the long-lived structure in the clouds of Venus, called the Giant Dark…
Hubble Spots 3 “Fossil” Galaxies from Early Universe
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three new ultra-low dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the large spiral…
25-Year-Old Solar Mystery Finally Solved
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Astronomers have been able to resolve the solar sodium paradox, which has existed for over 20 years. They managed to…
Have Experts Found the Origin of our Galaxy’s Mystery Cosmic Rays?
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Scientists at the University of Nagoya in Japan have uncovered a century-old mystery of the origin of mysterious radiation in…
Five Deep Space Objects May Help Solve Cosmic Mysteries
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Astronomers have found five extremely massive brown dwarfs whose masses are close to the limit above which the object becomes…
Pentagon Moving Forward to Build Nuclear Space Engine
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In the 60s and 70s of the last century, the United States and the Soviet Union were desperate to create…
40,000-Year-Old Explosion Rocks Deep Space
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The eROSITA X-ray telescope, installed onboard the Spektr-RG observatory, has found a new type Ia galactic supernova remnant. The explosion…
Alien Life Could Thrive On New Type of Ocean Worlds
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Earth is the only clear example of a habitable planet we know of. Therefore, in search of possible life elsewhere,…
Solar System’s Oort Cloud Repository for Interstellar Objects
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Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian Institutions (CfA) present new calculations showing that the Oort Cloud…
China to Build a Kilometer-Long Space Station
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In recent years, China has risen to become one of the great powers in cosmonautics. They sent a mission to…
Snow on Mars Probably Melts
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A new study of the Martian surface has shown that it was snowing on the Red Planet about a million…
Scientists Find Our Solar System’s Fastest Moving Object
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Astronomers have discovered the fastest asteroid in the Solar System. Object 2021 PH27 has the new shortest orbital period around…
Pyramid-Era Comet Was Part of Even Larger Space Chunk
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found that Comet C / 2019 Y4 (ATLAS), which unexpectedly disintegrated last spring,…
Major Structure Identified in the Milky Way Galaxy
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Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown giant structure in one of the spiral arms of…
Saturn’s Rings Reveal Clues About Gas Giant’s Core
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Planetologists revealed the results of a new study on Cassini’s archived observations of Saturn’s rings. Scientists were able to give…
Martian Moons Could Hold Clues to Life on Red Planet
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Scientists Ryuki Hedo and Tomohiro Usui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have published a promising paper, in which…