Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
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Saturn's Stellar Moon Takeover: A New Galactic Leader
Saturn has become the planet with the most moons following the discovery of 128 new moons by a team of astronomers. This brings the total count to 274, surpassing all other planets. These tiny, ...
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Two of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by something much worse than asteroids
The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...
Astronomers Confirm 4 Rocky Exoplanets in Earth’s Backyard, Just 6 Light-Years Away
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
Team preps to study dark energy via exploding stars with NASA's Roman
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...
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7 Weird Facts About Black Holes
For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...
Supernovas may have triggered ancient ice ages, wiping out 60–70% of Earth’s species: Study
A supernova — the explosive death of a massive star — can leave behind a black hole or neutron star. These cosmic blasts are element factories, spreading carbon, calcium, and iron across space, ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...