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What Wintering Squirrels Can Teach Astronauts
When bears and ground squirrels hibernate in winter, they stop eating, lasting until spring simply on the fat reserves they've stored up in their...
Gigantic Planet Found Hidden in Plain Sight
An astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools.
The planet, TOI-2180...
New Study Further Resolves Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox – With String Theory
Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says.
The study attempts to put to rest the debate over Stephen Hawking’s famous information paradox,...
‘Orion’s Fireplace’: Flame Nebula is Ablaze With Color and Captured in Stunning New Images
There's an adage in astronomy about how there's always something new to find in the constellation of Orion—well, astronomers just found his fireplace.
In a...
NASA Launches James Webb Telescope to See First Galaxies and Distant Worlds With its Giant Sunshield
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope officially launched on December 25. Its mission? To seek the light from the first galaxies in the early universe...
Spectacular Time Lapse Shows the Hypnotic Flames on the Surface of the Sun (WATCH)
These spectacular time lapse images taken with a powerful telescope show the hypnotic flames on the surface of the sun
39-year-old Deddy Dayag used two...
Chinese Rover Spots Weird, Large ‘Cube’ on the Moon
A lunar rover has spotted a strange cube-shaped object and will alter its official course to check it out, needing 2-3 months to arrive.
Official...
Spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight – See Up to 120 Shooting Stars Per Hour
There are lots of celestial events to look out for this December, from Venus being at its brightest to the arrival of the Full...
NASA and SpaceX Launched First Rocket to Test a Defense System Against Giant Asteroids in the Future
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched...
This is What it Looks Like When a Black Hole Snacks on a Star
While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters, generating...
900-Year-old Mystery That Puzzled Stargazers is Now Solved – It’s A ‘Zombie’ Star
The Chinese have a long, ancient history of recording “guest stars”—suddenly bright stars that appear in the sky for a while but then dim...
Have We Detected Dark Energy? Cambridge Scientists Say It’s a Possibility
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below...
This Asteroid is a $10,000-Quadrillion Lump of Iron and a Potential Opportunity to Study an Exposed Planetary Core
Out between Mars and Jupiter in the solar system's asteroid belt, there's a lump of iron and nickel called 16 Psyche that has a...
Cold Planets Exist Throughout Our Galaxy, Even in the Galactic Bulge, Scientists Discover
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our...
Massive Balloon the Size of a Soccer Stadium to Launch Telescope to Edge of Space to Study How Stars Form
The world's biggest balloon, the size of a soccer stadium, is to be sent to the edge of space.
The instrument—named Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope,...
The First Amateur Astronomer to Ever Discover a New Moon – And it’s Orbiting Jupiter
One might think that since we can take detailed images of galaxies millions of light years away, there's no way something as significant a...
Spend 3 Weeks at a Luxury Hotel as Their Photographer Chasing Northern Lights
A hotel in Iceland is calling all photographers for a three-week paid vacation to capture images of this year's northern lights, as if such...
This Week’s Inspiring Horoscopes From Rob Brezsny’s ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
Global Telescope Creates Exquisite Map of Black Hole’s Swirling Magnetic Field
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy has shown important details of the...
NASA Confirmation: Earth is Safe From Asteroid for 100 Years
Earthlings can feel some relief for now, as NASA has confirmed our planet is safe from a particularly worrisome asteroid for the next century...