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Space.com

Astronomers are increasingly concerned about the future of the night sky as new images show shocking trails left by a massive communications satellite against otherwise clear, dark patches of sky. In September, AST SpaceMobile launched the first …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is expected to roll a Falcon 9 rocket back into its hangar at Cape Canaveral for troubleshooting, postponing the planned launch of a Japanese commercial moon lander for an unspecified period. SpaceX provided no details about the reason for …

CNN

An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.

CNN

Researchers announced on Wednesday that they forged two miniscule simulated black holes – those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape – in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them …

CNET

And a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy conclude that Zwicky picked up the signal of a uniquely extreme “tidal disruption event,” or TDE. In other words, the …

CNN

In November, the space observatory turned its infrared gaze on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It’s the only moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere — four times denser than Earth’s. Titan’s atmosphere …

CNN

The beautiful chaos of two merging galaxies shines in the latest image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron viewed the new Webb image, along with a new …

Smithsonian

The new dinosaur was found in the Gobi Desert at a place called Hermiin Tsav, famous among paleontologists for preserving multiple dinosaur species and other forms of ancient life. Careful preparation of the dinosaur’s bones was required before the strange …

Smithsonian

Now, however, new evidence suggests scientists may have had the story backward. Based on an analysis of a prehistoric bird’s skull bone, researchers propose that the jointed upper beak existed much earlier than expected, and the fused palate evolved in …

Big Think

Although the ocean receded and eventually dried up entirely, there’s now evidence that deposits made some 3.4 billion years ago at the Viking 1 lander site, 600 million years after this illustration, could have arisen from a Chicxulub-like impactor: one …