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New AI-powered sensor measures starlight distortion to help discover new planets
The "photonic wavefront sensor" helps correct the distortion of starlight caused by observing planets through optical telescopes. ...
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Can there be life on Venus? Here's what scientists are doing to find out
On Sept. 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable worlds in the Solar System: Venus. Phosphine, ...
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The 4 most promising worlds for alien life in the solar system
The Earth’s biosphere contains all the known ingredients necessary for life as we know it. Broadly speaking these are liquid ...
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Phosphorus surrounding distant stars could be a sign of life-friendly worlds
Far from our solar system, phosphorus surrounding distant stars could be a telltale sign of worlds friendly to extraterrestrial ...
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There's an asteroid heading for Earth — but scientists tell us not to worry
Social media around the world lit up over the weekend, discussing the possibility that an asteroid (known as 2018 VP₁) ...
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Astronomers think our Sun may have a long lost twin
A twin star of the Sun may have formed along with our solar system, a new study from the Center for Astrophysics finds. If ...
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A supernova may have caused Earth’s mass extinction 359 million years ago
The cause of the Devonian period extinction 359 million years ago, ranked as one of the five great extinctions of life ...
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Red giant star Betelgeuse dimmed because it ‘sneezed,’ astronomers explain
The dimming of Betelgeuse seen at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 explained — the red giant star “sneezed.” Betelgeuse ...
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Dwarf planet Ceres is covered in deep salty oceans, spacecraft finds
Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is ...
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Revolutionary technique lets astronomers find a huge planet that’s just like Saturn
The VLBA radio telescope network has discovered a massive exoplanet — similar to Saturn — orbiting a nearby star. ...
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Scientists: What if black holes had a safe zone where little planets could live? Let's call them 'blanets'
Every once in a while the scientific community comes up with a discovery so important that it immediately changes the course ...
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Look, human, it’s the first photo of planets orbiting a sun 300 light years away
The planetary system TYC 8998–760–1, sitting 300 light years from Earth, shows a pair of massive worlds orbiting ...
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Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water
The origin of water on Earth has long been a contested question — water forms in the course of many chemical reactions, ...
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The Solar Orbiter just snapped the closest-ever pictures of the Sun
The Solar orbiter just produced the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, revealing our parent star in stunning detail. These ...
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Colonizing our solar system will make our species very hard to eliminate
The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless, if we don’t destroy ourselves first. The same would be true ...
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Will we ever find Planet 9? The mystery that could lie at the edge of our solar system
Planet nine may be orbiting far from the Sun, at the edge of our solar system. Astronomers, seeing odd irregularities in ...
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The Neowise comet passes Earth on July 22 — and you can see it with your own naked eyes
Neowise is the first bright comet to be visible with the naked eye from the northern hemisphere since the mid-1990s. Another ...
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Where is the center of the solar system?
If somebody asks you where the center of the solar system is, you would probably say “the sun.” The orrery shows ...
