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The Arecibo Message was not intended as an invitation to talk to aliens, but as a demonstration of human technological ...
Plenty of video games take us to outer space, but only the best space RPGs let you chart your own odyssey through the stars.
Astronomers have spotted two huge white dwarf stars which they say are destined to explode together in a supernova - 22 billion years from now.
Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around ... After one such explosion blows a star's outer layers into space, the core remains—but it no longer produces nuclear fusion.
Photographed by Zoltan Levay, this barred spiral galaxy ... Dark Space, It was David Leckrone's Hubble ultra-deep field image which depicted the vast space filled with all kinds of stars ...
Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and ... newly formed stars and their extended jets of material.
Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...
Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.
The spaceships in these games are detailed not just on the exterior, but on the inside that players can explore.
The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...
A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope ... at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, Sh2-284 lacks ...