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Mars has been getting beat up by asteroids for 600 million years

Even if things had lived there, they probably wouldn't have wanted to hang around.

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago

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Lunar rovers are getting an upgrade with first Toyota that’s truly an all-terrain Cruiser

We wonder if it has heated seats?

By Cassidy Ward 2 years ago

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Space warps can kill planetary systems before they’re born

Let's not do the space warp again.

By Cassidy Ward 2 years ago

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Line of sight

How do you find the distance to objects quadrillions of km away?

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

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Astronomers find the first rogue black hole wandering the Milky Way!

If confirmed, it's the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever found.

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

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Where did that weird megastructure in the center of the galaxy come from?

It looks like a Magic Eye image on steroids.

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago

Artwork of a distant asteroid on its way in toward the inner solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Second-ever Earth Trojan asteroid found!

2020 XL5 shares an Earth-like orbit.

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

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The Sun and Moon could be unleashing earthquakes and volcanoes

What causes plate tectonics might not be what you think.

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago

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The mystery of the disappearing flash in space

Spoiler: it wasn't aliens.

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago

Artwork depicting the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole in a quasar, creating a jet of matter blowing outwards. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

8 highlights of radio astronomy in 2021

From the Moon to the farthest quasar, the big radio astronomy stories of 2021.

By Phil Plait 2 years ago