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5000 Comets Discovered Using Space-Based Sun Observatory
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...
X-Ray Flares Turn Alien Worlds Into Cosmic Battlefields
Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...
LISA: What the Revolutionary Gravitational Wave Observatory Will Actually See
LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...
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Lonely Galaxy That Pulled In All Its Neighbors Observed By Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory captured imagery of a galaxy that "appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former companion galaxies." according to NASA. Galaxy 3C297 is 9.2 billion ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Will Unveil the Hidden Spectrum of the Cosmos
SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...
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Comet G3 (ATLAS) looks breathtaking above future home of world's largest telescope (photos)
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...
See Saturn, Venus, other planets, at IUK Observatory open house
So long as the weather cooperates, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the moon will be visible Sunday evening during an open house at the Indiana University Kokomo Observatory. The open house begins at ...
Meet Pandora, NASA’s New Mission To Find Distant Alien Water Worlds
NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...
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Alaska's ice is melting in front of our eyes, staggering satellite shots show
Unusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in the northwestern state. Now, new satellite ...
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...