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What would happen if we had an additional planet in our solar system? Not in the fringes like the hypothetical Planet Nine way beyond Pluto, but smack in the middle of Mars and Jupiter? Such a world would wreak havoc on the orbits of most planets, …

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You wait for an age to see a colliding pair of black holes in a dwarf galaxy and then two come along at once! Astronomers have spotted not one but two dwarf galaxy black hole duos on separate collision courses, the first observational evidence of such a …

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NASA aims to develop a spacecraft capable of steering the International Space Station (ISS) to a controlled destruction in Earth’s atmosphere when its time in orbit is up. We first learned about this plan on Thursday (March 9), when the White House …

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Europe’s first Jupiter-bound mission is in the final stages of preparations for its launch on April 13 from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Functional tests and a countdown rehearsal have been successfully completed ahead of the launch …

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The skinny budget did reveal some interesting specifics about the budget request. For example, the proposed NASA budget allocates $8.1 billion for the Artemis program of moon exploration, which aims to establish a research outpost on the lunar surface by …

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It’s almost over for the close encounter between Venus and Jupiter with the two planets moving apart as March progresses. Skywatchers can observe the planets as they move in opposite directions in the sky each night, breaking their conjunction.

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This is going to disappoint Trekkies everywhere, but what was thought to be a real-life version of the exoplanet Spock calls home is actually not a planet at all. Vulcan (for the uninitiated) is the planet in the “Star Trek” universe which orbits the …

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A few years from now, a small radio telescope on the far side of the moon could help scientists peer into the universe’s ancient past. The moon instrument, called the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), is a pathfinder being …

Phys.Org

Hot on the heels of the disappointing Green Comet, astronomers have just discovered a new comet with the potential to be next year’s big story—C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). Although it is still more than 18 months from its closest approach to Earth …

Forbes

In the movie, Michelle Yeoh’s character Evelyn Wang connects with versions of herself in parallel universes to prevent the multiverse from being destroyed. Is it far-fetched? Of course! But right now, cosmologists are …