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Why Is Mars Barren, Uninhabitable? NASA's Curiosity Rover Offers New Clue
Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water
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Largest Sample Of Galaxies Up To Over 12 Billion Light Years Away Observed
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA Reveals a Fracture in Huge Cosmic Bone: Everything You Need to Know
With the use of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA has detected a fracture in the Milky Way. The bone is a galactic center filament that is based at a distance of 26,000 light years from Earth. The fracture would have occurred due to collisions with the neutron star, known as a pulsar, that spins rapidly. The scientists suspect that the fracture w...
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Ancient Stars Found Near Sun Suggest Milky Way is Older Than Previously Thought
The discovery of 13 billion-year-old stars near the Sun challenges previous understandings of the Milky Way's formation, suggesting that our galaxy's history may be far older than once believed.
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Astronomers Find 7 Planets Being "Fried" By Their Star In Milky Way
In our solar system, little rocky Mercury is the planet orbiting closest to the sun, perpetually fried by solar radiation seven times more intense than what we experience on Earth.
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Cosmic smash-up expected; Earth will survive
Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit - in 4 billion years.
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Why Is Mars Barren, Uninhabitable? NASA's Curiosity Rover Offers New Clue
Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water
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Largest Sample Of Galaxies Up To Over 12 Billion Light Years Away Observed
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA Reveals a Fracture in Huge Cosmic Bone: Everything You Need to Know
With the use of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA has detected a fracture in the Milky Way. The bone is a galactic center filament that is based at a distance of 26,000 light years from Earth. The fracture would have occurred due to collisions with the neutron star, known as a pulsar, that spins rapidly. The scientists suspect that the fracture w...
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Ancient Stars Found Near Sun Suggest Milky Way is Older Than Previously Thought
The discovery of 13 billion-year-old stars near the Sun challenges previous understandings of the Milky Way's formation, suggesting that our galaxy's history may be far older than once believed.
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Astronomers Find 7 Planets Being "Fried" By Their Star In Milky Way
In our solar system, little rocky Mercury is the planet orbiting closest to the sun, perpetually fried by solar radiation seven times more intense than what we experience on Earth.
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Cosmic smash-up expected; Earth will survive
Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit - in 4 billion years.
