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How an astronomer accidentally found a star stuck in a cosmic waltz
While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...
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, ...
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, ...
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Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang
New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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DNA-busting radiation from star-killing supernova could have influenced evolution on Earth
in the seafloor indicated that a nearby supernova likely bombarded the Earth with cosmic rays some 2.5 million years ago.