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Handout/Handout/Getty Images All Those Little Red Dots in Space Might Be Young Black Holes
These black holes are buried inside thick cocoons of gas that hide most of the signals that astronomers typically use to identify them.
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Photo: Cobalt88 / Getty Images Mars Wasn’t Always a Red Planet, It Used to Be Blue
The red planet had a massive ocean about 3 billion years ago, effectively making it blue, a lot like Earth is today.
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Alex Wong/Staff/Getty Images NASA’s Pandora Mission Will Help the James Webb Telescope Find New Habitable Planets
If Pandora functions as it’s designed to, it’ll help us figure out if there’s life out there in the universe.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images Is the Hubble Telescope Going to Die Soon?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been our most reliable eye in the sky, allowing us to peer deep into the inky cosmic void like never before.
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Paul Campbell/Getty Images 9 Ways Space Can Kill You
Here are nine very specific, very horrifying ways space can kill you that we pulled straight from NASA’s risk pages and reports.
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Chakarin Wattanamongkol/Getty Images Jupiter Will Shine Brighter Than Any Star This Weekend: Here’s How to See It
It’s bright, and it’s center stage. That’s Jupiter, and it will outshine every star in the sky as it reaches opposition this weekend.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images NASA Postpones ISS Spacewalk Over Astronaut’s ‘Medical Situation’
The unnamed crewmember is described as stable, but the situation was apparently serious enough to prompt an abrupt change of plans.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images 9 Super Awful Things Going to Space Does to the Human Body
NASA has spent decades documenting the weird parts because the weird parts are the most interesting, but they can also be dangerous.
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3I/ATLAS Scientists Searched 3I/ATLAS for Signs of Aliens. Did They Find Anything?
Scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for a wide range of radio frequencies for over five hours. What they found is exactly what we expected.
