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NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoWater is a main ingredient of life as we know it and a key feature astrobiologists search for when...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 6 days ago"White dwarfs are so small and so featureless, that if a terrestrial planet transited in front of them, you could actually do a much better job of characterizing its atmosphere ...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 1 day agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoScientists studying the earliest black holes may have found an answer to dark matter, putting...
Unexpected Find: Webb Discovers Mystery Sulfur on Distant Planet
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoGJ 3470 b is a gas dwarf with unexpected sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere. This discovery provides...
Another Planetary Parade Starts on Aug. 23: Spot 6 Planets in the Sky at Once
CNET· 4 days agoDid you miss the June 3 planet parade, when six planets lined up in the sky? In August, stargazers...
Astronomers Discover Long-Studied Star Is Actually Two Stars
ExtremeTech· 55 minutes agoAstronomers thought they had a good handle on a star called WL20, which sits some 400 light-years away in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex. Then, NASA and the National Radio
Planet Earth has "front row seat" to rare cosmic event this summer
San Antonio Express-News· 3 days agoThis summer, astronomers all over planet Earth will have the chance to see a once-in-a-lifetime rare...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoFor a long period ending only about 12,000 years ago, our planet withstood a series of harsh ice...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
AccuWeather· 1 day agoAn illustration depicts colliding asteroids around the central star in the Beta Pictoris system and...