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Black holes aren’t just the densest, most massive objects in space. They might also be some of the fastest.
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Space is becoming a growing commercial industry. And we need to start heavily investing in it to save ourselves from our worst decision makers.
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Some 25 underwater mines mysteriously exploded in the summer of 1972. A newly declassified report points its finger at a surprising culprit: the sun.
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It turns out that one of the oldest objects in the known universe is only a few thousand light years from Earth.
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A new paper about the bizarre interstellar visitor to our solar system says it may well be a lost alien spacecraft. But there’s a big snag with that idea...
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We might not know exactly what produces mysterious fast radio bursts, but we’re finally recording enough events to point the finger at potential culprits...
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A new mission to Mercury will test a quirk of general relativity. It won’t be decisive and will involve a lot of precision measurement and tedious number-crunching. And it’s exactly the kind of science we should be encouraging.
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Astronomers discovered a large proto-supercluster that shows us just how quickly the universe we see today organized itself.
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A recent Pew study about American attitudes on space exploration may seem like exciting news for NASA and space exploration advocates, but it doesn’t ask the questions that really matter.
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Nuclear pasta isn’t exactly an awe-inspiring name, but it may be the strongest substance in the universe and it’s found in only in the crust of neutron stars.