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Twisted Jet Confirms Most Extreme Binary Black Hole System in the Universe
Astronomers using a global radio telescope array have captured a record-sharp image of the blazar OJ 287, showing its particle…
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Hubble Delivers Best View Yet of Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Racing Through Solar System
Scientists have been able to see the most detailed image so far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS thanks to the Hubble…
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James Webb Telescope Detects Potential Gas Giant Exoplanet Just 4 Light-Years Away
New observational evidence from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has yet to launch, may change that. JWST astronomers…
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Earliest Known Black Hole Found Just 500 Million Years After the Big Bang
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet, an ancient quasar more than 13 billion light years from our…
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NASA Awards Firefly $177M for 2029 Mission to Deliver Rovers to Moon’s South Pole
NASA’s $176.7 million for Firefly is funding a contract to deliver two rovers and three science instruments to the south…
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Scientists Explore Role of Space Radiation in Powering Alien Microbial Life
The search for alien life traditionally focuses on planets in the “Goldilocks zone” — the orbital band where surface water…
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Massive 200-Light-Year Cloud May Be Channeling Matter to the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have found a vast, never-before-noticed reservoir of stellar material, hundreds of light-years across, lurking in a cold, dark, starless…
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PSR J0922+0638 Pulsar Keeps Glitching Every 550 Days, Scientists Are Intrigued
PSR J0922+0638 is one of the pulsars, which are typically ultradense remains of a massive star that exploded as a…
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NASA’s Solar Observatory Sees Two Eclipses in One Day
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has witnessed and recorded an unprecedented phenomenon of two solar eclipses in one day on…
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Doomed Exoplanet TOI-2109b Spirals Toward Its Star with Three Possible Fates
The gas giant TOI-2109b is more than five times as massive as Jupiter, and resides in a perilous orbit 870…
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NASA Crew-11 Astronauts Begin Pre-Launch Quarantine Ahead of July 2025 Flight
NASA’s next four-person astronaut crew has entered quarantine as they prepare for launch. On July 17, 2025, the Crew-11 team…
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Gravitational Waves Reveal Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Observed
Delivering a fresh jolt to a field recently rocked by controversy, astrophysicists have discovered the most massive collision yet of…
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