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Could nearby stars have habitable exoplanets? NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory hopes to find out
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoThe search for life beyond Earth dutifully continues. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray...
Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming
Scientific American· 4 days agoIn 2002 then NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe announced that the upcoming Next Generation Space Telescope, the pride of the agency and a promise of...
Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star...
Astronomers Are Awaiting an Explosion in the Sky That Only Occurs Every 80 Years
CNET· 2 days agoNASA scientists and global astronomers are currently awaiting a nova event, and regular Earthlings will be able to see it with the naked eye. After that, we'll have to wait ...
NASA will put a 'new star' in the sky by the end of the decade in 1st-of-its-kind mission
LiveScience· 1 day agoThe Landolt NASA Space Mission aims to send an artificial star satellite into orbit around Earth by...
Astronomers detect evidence of possible asteroid collisions in ‘teenage’ solar system
Courthouse News Service· 5 days agoThe lead scientist on the study, John Hopkins astronomer Christine Chen, said she and her team made...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 2 days agoAstronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of...
Binary star system could go nova soon since last explosion 80 years ago, NASA says
The Republican· 1 day agoAny day now, it will appear as though one of the night sky’s constellations is exploding, an...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
SPACE.com· 1 day agoThe black hearts of galaxies have had their history told almost in full for the first time, as ...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 6 days agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....