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What does 'parsec' mean?Science word of the day Pronunciation: PAHR'-sek
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NASA awakens New Horizons spacecraft to do science billions of miles beyond PlutoNASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.
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Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanationAstronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious "little red dots" that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surveys of the early universe.
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What does 'heliosphere' mean?Science word of the day Pronunciation: HEE'-lee-uhs-feer
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'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first timeAstronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.
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James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universeSpace photo of the week The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang.
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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planetAmino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.
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'Shared cosmic experience': 90% of the world's population may see 'once-in-a-millennium' asteroid fly by Earth in 2029Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye.
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Sugar found in raspberries discovered near the center of the Milky WayErythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.
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