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Somewhere near the star Altair, one of the brighter stars in the northern summer sky, sits an object that has been quiet
MOST READ · FM 89.1Martian dust storms are some of the most fascinating and mysterious planetary surface processes ever observed, as Earth,
TRENDING · FM 90.2NASA's Psyche mission is on its way to check out the asteroid 16 Psyche, a massive and metal-rich asteroid in the main a
LATEST · FM 91.3The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a spiral, way back in
EDITOR'S PICK · FM 92.4Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock tha
MOST READ · FM 93.5On Earth, it’s hard to track events that reshape its surface, as the surface itself is being reshaped constantly by weat
MOST READ · FM 94.6Now is the time to catch Comet 10P/Tempel in the pre-dawn sky. A low-number periodic comet is stalking our fair planet
EDITOR'S PICK · FM 95.7(This is Part 2 of a series on the life and work of Chandrasekhar. ReadPart 1first.) It's January 11, 1935. A Friday. B
EDITOR'S PICK · FM 96.8During the Cretaceous-Paleogene period (ca. 66 million years ago), a massive impact triggered an extinction-level event
TRENDING · FM 97.9Bernard's Star, a relatively low-mass M-type (red dwarf) star located less than 6 light-years from Earth, is the Solar S
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Astronomers have found four new white dwarfs in our solar neighbourhood. Each of them were hiding behind their binary pa
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Dreams of finding a sort of Earth 2.0 motivates a lot of the thinking around the search for exoplanets. But there's more
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Although general relativity is an elegant theory of gravity, we don't often need to use it. For most gravitational inter
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1.4. I want you to remember that number long after you've finished this series. It's rare for the universe to just hand
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There is something quietly reassuring about a scientific mystery that gets solved not by a dramatic new discovery, but b
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Every so often, a piece of space news comes along that makes you raise an eyebrow and this is one of those moments. A te
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NASA'sPerseverance rovercontinues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars' northern hemisphere
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NASA is gearing up for its long-awaited return to the lunar surface for the first time sinceApollo 17in 1972. This is sc
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TheSubmillimeter Array(SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached
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How life started on our own planet may not seem as sexy as finding evidence for life on Mars, or the icy moons of Europa
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The Dark Energy Camera's newest image features the Corona Australis molecular cloud and its many stellar and gaseous fea
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(This is Part 4 of a series on what it's like to travel near the speed of light. ReadPart 1,Part 2, andPart 3first.) Qu
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Supermassive black holes (SMBH) can be extraordinarily messy eaters. When a star comes to close, the SMBH's overwhelming
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As far as we know, food doesn’t exist naturally in space. We have to bring it with us if we want to explore the final fr
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(This is Part 3 of a series on what it's like to travel near the speed of light. ReadPart 1andPart 2first.) There's a g
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Occasionally, when a massive star dies in a supernova, it can leave behind a dense, rapidly spinning core known as a pul
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Reflect Orbital moves ahead with the company’s first Eärendil launch, ahead of concerns from the astronomical community.
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Climate Change, characterized by rising temperatures, sea levels, and ocean acidity, poses an existential risk to countl
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Astronomers have found a new exoplanet in the Beta Pictoris (β Pic) system. β Pic is about 63 light years away, and is n
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(This is Part 2 of a series on what it's like to travel near the speed of light. ReadPart 1first.) Let's start with per
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Imagine you were traveling at the speed of light, racing alongside a single photon, the fastest possible thing in the un
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Peak star formation took place during the Cosmic Noon between two to three billion years after the Big Bang. The star fo
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What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometres from Earth? For China's Ti
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A team of Chinese astronomers using the Very Large Array (NSF VLA) recently detected a rare transient event taking place
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How do you check the universe's age without a birth certificate? One clever answer is to find its oldest surviving resid
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Humanity has many powerful tools in its cognitive arsenal. Language, abstract thinking, the theory of mind, and many oth
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Despite their depiction as massive monsters that simply suck in everything, including light, astronomers know black hole
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As one of the most prominent features of the night sky, the Orion Nebula has been studied, probed, and imaged by almost
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It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III stars, are a
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A star's passage near our solar system may have sent a hail of comets our way. It’s strange to think. Though the stars
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Researchers at theAdvanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center(CUNY-ASRC) have de
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How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at more than twelve kil
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Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By some quirk of orbital mechanics, th
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There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’
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Astrobiology has long been split into two camps: a search for "biosignatures" and a search for "intelligence." These loo
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What would it be like to stand at the boundary between night and day on a planet locked forever facing its star? Astrono
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How do you listen for something quieter than almost anything else in nature, a signal built from ghostly particles that
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After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the Moon was that it was anhyd
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OnFriday, July 10th, China achieved a major milestone in its race to become a space power comparable to NASA. During its
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Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer and the oldest woman ever to go to space, died this past week. She was 87. She passed aw
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An international team led by researchers from theMax Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy(MPIfR) recently made afirst-ev
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For roughly a century, scientists have known that our Universe is in a constant state of expansion. Known as theHubble-L
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Supernova explosions occur when massive stars reach the end of their lives. The outward force of their fusion can no lon
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How do you capture the mood of the 1960s space race in a fictional universe where the Soviets beat the Americans to the
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There's a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani.Ptolemyin the 2nd century AD andal-Sufiin 964 A
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There's no doubt about it: the skies are filling up with satellites that regularly pass overhead, creating light trails
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Shielding astronauts from the killer radiation they face is a central challenge facing any designer of a deep-space crew
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NASA is serious about going back to the Moon. Ongoing missions like the recently completed Artemis II trip around the Mo
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We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets
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Could a trip to Mars leave an astronaut's liver looking decades older than it should? Researchers at the University of C
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What do you do when a fireball lights up the sky and every camera meant to capture it comes up empty? Last spring, a bri
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If humans are ever going to live on the Moon rather than just visit, they will need to grow their own food there, and th
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How do you weigh something you cannot see, hiding in light that is nearly as old as the universe itself? A team led by p
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Treaties are powerful tools to get nations to align on important issues. They've shaped human history from the time of t
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Because of our Solar System's location in the Milky Way's galactic disk, astronomers have a harder time determining the
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The James Webb Space Telescope has applied relentless pressure on our understanding of the Cosmos. The powerful infrared
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Hayabusa 2's primary mission is well in the past, now.JAXA'sasteroid sampling spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid Ryug
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The ESA's Euclid space telescope was built to study the "dark Universe." That means dark matter, which is most of the ma
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The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light years away and is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it's s
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Between 2012 and 2025, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has been monitoring the jet launched by the supermassive black h
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NASA and China's national space agency plan to send crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Per NASA'sMoon to Mar
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Humans have known about Andromeda since they first gazed skyward, because it's visible with the naked eye as a little gr
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Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer u
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We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to la
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With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy - with every new advanced telesco
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In 2024, astronomers detected a rocky exoplanet,GJ 3378b, orbiting a red dwarf sun just 25 light-years from Earth in the
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In the course of studying planets beyond our Solar System (6,316 confirmed exoplanetsand counting), scientists have disc
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The Solar System is surrounded by a vast bubble of plasma created by solar wind flowing outward from the Sun. This bubbl
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Dark Matter (DM), that mysterious matter that accounts for 85% of the Universe's mass, continues to fascinate and puzzle
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has captured evidence of a Jupiter-like world orbiting another star,
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