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While studying mysterious fast radio bursts, astronomers figured out why the universe weighs as much as it does and where that mass went.
# astrobiology
An alien civilization's megaproject is very unlikely to be responsible for the weird signals from a strange star. But we can't entirely rule it out...
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Early galaxies seem to grow a lot faster than they should. We finally know how.
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Scientists and engineers are slowly but steadily preparing to protect us from an incoming comet or asteroid despite the media's coverage of their efforts as anything but organized.
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It turns out that one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is to turn out the lights, lean back, and closely watch a little gravitational galaxy on galaxy action.
# astrobiology
In its quest or clicks, the media turned a single footnote in a paper on a sequence of fast radio bursts into proof that scientists found the second coming of the Wow! Signal.
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Europa is one of the most promising places to find alien life in our solar system, but exploring the moon isn't as easy as just landing on the surface and starting to drill and probe.
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On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.
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Extrasolar moons of gas giants may be the perfect worlds for life outside out solar system. And they should be even more common than planets.
# science
It seems we finally understand something about black holes and their behavior.