ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER APPARENT “OCEAN PLANET” 100 LIGHT-YEARS FROM EARTH0
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- August 29, 2022
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‘Black widow’ is heaviest neutron star after devouring its stellar companion0
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- August 16, 2022
Astronomers have spied a “black widow” lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it’s a record-breaking cosmic object.
James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the oldest, most distant known galaxy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 11, 2022
Using the most powerful space telescope ever built, astronomers spotted a galaxy that existed 13.4 billion years ago
Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an unusual image of something lying in the red sand of Mars: a bundle of string.
Fastest-growing black hole ever seen is devouring the equivalent of 1 Earth per second0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2022
This behemoth has been powering an ultrabright quasar for 9 billion years.
Curiosity Has Found Some Truly Weird-Looking, Twisty Rock Towers on Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2022
The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock – the spikes of sediment look almost like frozen streams of water poured from an invisible jug in the sky.
Telescopes reveal why Neptune is more blue than Uranus0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 14, 2022
Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.
The Moon May Have Been Covertly Siphoning Earth’s Water For Billions of Years0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2022
There are water molecules and ice up on the Moon, so how did they get there? Asteroid and comet collisions are likely to have produced some of it, but a new study suggests another source of lunar water: the Earth’s atmosphere.
Dream Chaser space plane gets FAA approval to land at Alabama airport0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2022
The private spacecraft could be flying cargo missions to the space station as soon as 2023.
This Space Rock’s Weird Chemistry Suggests It Came From a Supernova0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2022
A rare stellar death may have formed a rock that eventually landed in Egypt.
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