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Citizen scientists just doubled the known population of brown dwarfs — finding 3,000 hidden in old NASA data

By BeckhamLangford

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A medieval monk identified Halley’s Comet 700 years before Halley — he saw it twice in his own lifetime

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists map the deepest mantle plume ever found — a column of hot rock rising 1,800 miles under Iceland that powers its volcanoes

By BeckhamLangford

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Voyager 1 is 25 billion kilometers from Earth and still talking — amateur astronomers just detected its signal with homemade gear

By BeckhamLangford

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China’s moon rocks from the far side look nothing like anything collected on the near side — and scientists can’t explain why

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists propose a new way to hunt for alien life — stop searching for molecules and start looking for hidden patterns in how they’re organized

By BeckhamLangford

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Hubble reveals a lopsided planet-forming disk nicknamed ‘Dracula’s Chivito’ — the most chaotic stellar nursery ever observed

By BeckhamLangford

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Alaska’s Mount Kupreanof vents sulfur dioxide as earthquakes signal magma pushing toward the surface for the first time

By BeckhamLangford

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Webb Telescope maps 164,000 galaxies into the most detailed picture of the universe’s hidden structure ever made

By BeckhamLangford

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Perseverance imaged interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from the surface of Mars — the first time a rover has photographed a visitor from another star

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s Curiosity rover drilled into a Mars rock called ‘Atacama’ and the entire chunk ripped loose and stuck to the drill

By BeckhamLangford

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Tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once, physicists prove for the first time

By BeckhamLangford

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Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks before dawn this week as May wraps up with a rare blue moon

By BeckhamLangford

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AI just found 10,000 ‘impossible’ planets NASA’s telescopes photographed but nobody ever checked

By BeckhamLangford

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Astronomers detect one of the best aurora windows of May between now and May 10 as post-solar-maximum activity keeps lighting up northern skies

By BeckhamLangford

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China delivered rocks from the far side of the moon — and they appear to be significantly different from everything collected on the nearside

By BeckhamLangford

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First X-ray image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a signature never seen in any other object from outside our solar system

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s Pandora exoplanet survey releases its first engineering images — a new eye on alien atmospheres

By BeckhamLangford

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A tiny ‘plutino’ beyond Neptune has a thin atmosphere 10 million times thinner than Earth’s — and it shouldn’t have one at all

By BeckhamLangford

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A tiny world beyond Pluto has grown an ‘impossible’ atmosphere that should not exist — and scientists don’t know how

By BeckhamLangford

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