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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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Photo: Dencake / Getty Images The Moon’s Far Side Tells a Very Different Story Than the One We See From Earth
The only explanation that fits involves extreme heat generated by a massive impact.
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Christophe Lehenaff/Getty Images You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room on the Moon, If You Can Afford It
The moon hotel hasn’t welcomed guests yet, but it’s certainly welcoming money.
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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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Gremlin/Getty Images 7 Truly Bizarre UFO Sightings the Government Can’t (or Won’t) Explain
The problem with UFO sightings isn’t a lack of explanations. It’s that some explanations feel designed to end the conversation.
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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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VW Pics/Contributor/Getty Images Betelgeuse Has a Massive Secret Astronomers Just Discovered
Astronomers knew that Betelgeuse pulses roughly every 400 days, swelling and shrinking due to internal processes common to aging stars…
