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The sun may once have swallowed a super-Earth planet and could still be hiding the evidence
"A super-Earth could have formed and migrated into the young sun."
Space.com · 5 days ago
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Wavy alien dune fields stretch across Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 11, 2026
What a strange sight.
Space.com · 5 days ago
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Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'
Faint in X-rays but bright in ultraviolet light, new objects found by NASA's Chandra space telescope could help solve tw…
Space.com · 5 days ago
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Scientists study 3,000 supernovas and discover that dark energy may be evolving
"Instead of confirming the standard model of cosmology, which assumes dark energy is fixed and unchanging, we have more…
Space.com · 6 days ago
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Mercury is shrinking faster than we thought. What's going on inside of it?
"It made us think that there's a process obscuring shortening structures."
Space.com · 6 days ago
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Iconic Star Trek filming location spotted from space | Space photo of the day for Sept. 10, 2026
See where Captain Kirk and the Gorn squared up.
Space.com · 6 days ago
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Strange 'fast radio bursts' across the universe could help solve major cosmic mysteries: 'It's only the beginning'
"We've established that FRBs are a leading probe of the distribution of matter in the universe."
Space.com · 6 days ago
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This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
"Like light, gravitational waves can also be deflected, magnified, and split into multiple signals by massive objects."
Space.com · 7 days ago
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Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
"For the first time, we were able to watch two massive stars move around one another while they were still being born."
Space.com · 7 days ago
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NASA's newly launched Roman Space Telescope will 'directly' image exoplanets. But what does that mean?
"When you look up at the night sky, most of those stars have planets."
Space.com · 7 days ago
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We're about to exceed 1.5-degree global warming limit, according to the UN
"We can – and must – get on the right path."
Space.com · 7 days ago
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Indonesian volcanic eruption spotted from space | Space photo of the day for Sept. 9, 2026
Anak Krakatau erupted, and satellites were watching.
Space.com · 7 days ago