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Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Cosmic spitballs flung throughout galaxy
An unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, every few thousand years. The…
Explosion will change the night sky in 2022
A change to the night sky that will be visible to the naked eye has been predicted by Calvin College professor…
Study suggests the Moon was formed through bombardment birth
Researchers have suggested that the Moon, our planet's constant companion for some 4.5 billion years, may have been…
Monster black holes hiding under our cosmic bed
NuSTAR recently identified two gas-enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centers of nearby galaxies.…
NASA’s Lucy mission to explore the early solar system
Two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar…
Cosmological source of fast radio burst uncovered
The cosmological source of a sporadically repeating milliseconds-long 'fast radio burst' has been uncovered by…
Extremely rare Hoag-type galaxy has been observed
There is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714), approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, that…
Hollywood vs. NASA: Is ‘Passengers’ medically possible?
From 'Aliens' to 'Interstellar', Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep…
Milky Way Galaxy satellite lit up by festive nebulae light
The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such…
Erosion-carved troughs may become Martian ‘spiders’
Erosion-carved troughs that grow and branch during multiple Martian years may be infant versions of larger features…