Astronomy

Astronomy

Interstellar travel without a starship: aliens might do it!

Aliens may not travel in starships, but on complete but lonely planets through interstellar space. Professor Irina Mullins comes up with this idea in...
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Astronomy

Are sulphur-eating aliens hiding in Venus’ atmosphere? Nope, according to new research

It seemed such a beautiful and appropriate hypothesis: aliens living high in the atmosphere of Venus and secretly sniffing sulfur dioxide. But...
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Astronomy

Trembling stars, mysterious macromolecules and primordial suns: new dataset from Gaia makes the heart of many an astronomer beat faster

Astronomers have been eagerly awaiting it; the new data set from the Gaia space telescope. It was released today. And...
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Astronomy

Black holes shooting through the Milky Way like cannonballs: Hubble thinks it’s (finally!) spotted one

There are an estimated 100 million black holes in our Milky Way galaxy. Yet scientists have never been able to identify an...
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Astronomy

Earth and moon seem to collide in these photos, but appearances threaten

The moon moving in front of the earth: it remains a special image. The space photo of the week is actually a...
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Astronomy

NASA to launch space probe into Venus’ hellish atmosphere

The flying lab will study the composition of the Venusian atmosphere while also shooting some, hopefully many, more revealing photos. A year ago, NASA...
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Astronomy

NASA to investigate UFOs

In any case, the agency hopes to scientifically explain some of such mysterious sightings for our own safety. In the past, strange phenomena have...
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Astronomy

Scientists Blown Away With First Analysis Of Ryugu Samples

The samples contain the most pristine material from the early days of our solar system that scientists have ever seen. The monsters of asteroid...
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Astronomy

Exotic radio pulses from a distant galaxy

Very Large Array (top) and the FAST radio telescope (bottom). © NAOC Astronomers have now captured numerous ultra-short but extremely powerful radio pulses from...
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Astronomy

First-ever repetitive fast radio flash turns out to have an even stranger brother (and that raises new questions)

The first repeating fast radio burst discovered by scientists is still somewhat the black sheep in the fast radio burst family. But...
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Astronomy

James Webb telescope hit by small space rock

Although the impact was larger than what NASA expected, it does not appear to have caused significant damage to the mirror in question. NASA's...
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Astronomy

Mars helicopter faces navigation problems (but there is still hope)

One of Ingenuity's navigation sensors is failing. And while that's a big problem, the team hopes to get the helicopter up and...
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Astronomy

Jupiter turns out not to have distributed its metals fairly (and that’s surprising)

Under the picturesque outer layer of the gas giant hides a shell that is invisible to us. And in that shell, things...
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Astronomy

Mars rover sees hundreds of dust devils pass by

Never before has a Mars rover seen such a stir as Perseverance. The rover appears to have landed in a place where...
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Astronomy

Costing more than $1 billion, this spacecraft takes stunning photos of our solar system’s largest planet

This summer, Juno has been orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, for six years now. In these six years,...
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Astronomy

Save the date! First color photos from James Webb telescope are expected July 12

And that's just the beginning. We got a sneak peek a few months ago when the powerful James Webb telescope captured the star 2MASS...
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Astronomy

By scaling up the young Universe, these astrophysicists hope to solve a major problem

How fast is the universe expanding? To that question, much to the frustration of astronomers, we find different answers. A new...
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Astronomy

Evil aliens are probably scarce (and rarely smart enough to attack us)

Some quick mathematical calculations gently hint that an alien invasion should not immediately wake you up. Are we alone? It is a question...
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Astronomy

Ice giant Uranus sees what pips and astronomers think they finally know why

Uranus and Neptune have an incredible amount in common. Only their color is, for reasons inexplicable until recently, slightly different. And...
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Astronomy

Mars helicopter Ingenuity films its own record flight

What do you see when you fly above the surface of our neighboring planet Mars? This is shown in this video, which...
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