Science

TESS mission discovers massive ice giant

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In our solar system, the “ice giants” Neptune and Uranus are far less dense than rocky Venus and Earth...

Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought

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This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the...

NASA Spacecraft Helps Identify Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon

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NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World

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This illustration shows how planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. Over the course of a single...

Hungriest of Black Holes Among the Most Massive in the Universe

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Hungriest of Black Holes Among the Most Massive in the Universe

A Cosmic Mystery: ESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star

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A Cosmic Mystery: ESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star

The Beautiful Mess in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2255

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The filamentary structures observed by LOFAR at the center of Abell 2255, here reported...

Array of Radio Telescopes Reveals Explosion on the Surface of a Hot Dead Star

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The set of images obtained from the observations, starting 20 days after the discovery of the nova event and tracing the...