astronomy

While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power…
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Our planet also changes positions. In six months, the Earth will go from one side of the sun to the other. This is a…
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FP ExplainersMay 13, 2022 16:45:27 ISTFor the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black…
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NASA’s costly rocket program could be the last time the agency mounts such an effort, according to some former NASA…
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In 2011, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and a couple of colleagues wrote a paper exploring ideas about how tiny would-be planets…
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Russia will resume its moon-exploration program, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, paving the way for a…
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Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic…
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“We almost didn’t believe it at first, it was so much farther than the previous most distant star,” Brian Welch, a PhD…
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The Biden administration proposed new funding for NASA’s lunar aspirations, including a second moon-lander project that…
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Elena D’Onghia is known for her research on the structure of the Milky Way and our cosmic neighborhood. But the galactic…
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