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Voyager 1 sends strange signals from beyond the solar system. Scientists are confused.NASA's Voyager 1 space probe sent a confusing signal back to Earth, suggesting the craft doesn't know where it's located.
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Around a monster black hole, smaller black holes collide in strange waysTake three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.
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1st images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just releasedThe team behind NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11).
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Scorching alien planet takes seasons to an extremeScientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.
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Comet Leonard puts on a final, spectacular display with ion tail in solar windComet Leonard is falling out of view, but not without putting on one last show.
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This doomed alien planet has a year that lasts just 16 hours — and it's getting fasterAstronomers spotted a new gas giant with the shortest known orbit. The world takes just 16 hours to circle its star — but someday, the dance may come to an abrupt end.
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If an asteroid really threatened the Earth, what would a planetary defense mission look like?Someday, tucked away gathering dust in a nondescript warehouse, there will perhaps be a spacecraft waiting to be called to the launch pad, even as its builders pray it never flies.
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Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return shipsSeven astronauts were forced to take shelter due to flying space debris.
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'Cannibal CME' sun storm marks rise of new solar cycle in space weatherThe sun is waking up — and making sure we all know it.
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Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchersIt's tough to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating.
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Strange solar system object is part-asteroid, part-cometScientists have identified a rare solar system object with traits of both an asteroid and a comet.
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Climate change is making Earth dimmerEarth is reflecting less light as its climate continues to change, new research suggests.
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Brilliant dashcam fireball videos help scientists find 3 meteorites in SloveniaBrilliant dashcam fireball videos help scientists find 3 meteorites in Slovenia
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Our Milky Way galaxy isn't very well mixed, study suggestsOur galaxy isn't as thoroughly mixed as scientists sometimes assume, according to a new study.
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The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here's the discovery explained.The scientists that found Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein are an unlikely pair.
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Venus and a newly discovered comet will cross paths in December. Will sparks fly?Venus is Earth's twisted twin in so many ways, what about on the skywatching front?
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NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuitNASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.
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Chinese astronomers eye Tibetan Plateau site for observatory projectChinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.
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Black holes could give away their size by their 'messy eating'Astronomers think they have established a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants.
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Scientists fine-tune odds of asteroid Bennu hitting EarthIf the possibility of an asteroid called Bennu slamming into Earth a lifetime from now was keeping you up at night, NASA scientists think you can rest a little easier.
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NASA sun spacecraft whizzes through 9th solar flybyNASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.
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Astronaut watches Russian space station module fall from space in fiery demise (photos)On Monday (July 26), astronauts said goodbye to a cornerstone of the International Space Station and captured stunning images of the compartment burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
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'Mercury 13' pilot Wally Funk will carry 60 years of history to space on Blue Origin flightWhen Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered her a seat on the first crewed flight of his space tourism enterprise Blue Origin, it was an invitation aviator Wally Funk had waited six decades to receive.
