A new study by a team of astronomers and planetary scientists calculate that some stars could have as many as 7 habitable planets orbiting them!

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The Universe is about 10% smoother than we expect, and astronomers aren't entirely sure why.

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At the bottom of the ocean in the South Pacific Gyre, there’s a sediment layer that is among the most nutrient-starved environments on Earth. Because of conditions in that area, there’s almost no “marine snow”?the shower of organic debris common in the ocean?that falls to the ocean floor. Without all that organic debris falling to …

Continue reading "Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life"

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NASA's Perseverance rover experienced some hiccups shortly after launch, but is back on track and making its seven-month journey to Mars.

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SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test with its SN5, which will be followed shortly by a hop test!

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A strange celestial tension could be caused by a cosmic tango between events at very small and very large scales.

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On July 5, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived around Jupiter, becoming the second mission in history to study the gas giant from orbit – the last being the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Since then, the spacecraft has gathered data on Jupiter’s atmosphere, composition, gravity field, and magnetic field in the …

Continue reading "Juno Captures Pictures of Ganymede for the First Time"

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Comets visit the inner Solar System, and leave without saying goodbye. Maybe they leave a trail of dust behind, and when the Earth passes through it, we get a pretty light show in the night sky, in the form of a meteor shower. Likewise, asteroids frequently go whizzing by, though they don’t leave us with …

Continue reading "Ancient Meteorites Can be Found Embedded in Rocks, Like Fossils"

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There?s always more than one way to look at the world.  There?s also more than one way to look at a galaxy.  And sometimes combining those ways of looking can result in something truly special. That is what happened recently when a team of astronomers from seven different universities in four different countries used three …

Continue reading "This Is Fascinating. An Image of a Galaxy’s Magnetic Field"

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A new study by an international team of astronomers has shown that eclipsing binary stars could act as a natural "starshade," making it easier to spot orbiting exoplanets.

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