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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…
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Photo: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Will Astronauts One Day Be Sent to Space to Mine Asteroids?
These boys may make great astronauts, but they don’t know jack about drilling.
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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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Photo: Sharamand / Getty Images Are Aliens Communicating in Space Like Fireflies?
Maybe the aliens are talking, we’re just looking right past it.
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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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All About Space/ Contributor/Getty Images Astronomers Found an Impossibly Hot Object Near the Big Bang
Astronomers found a galaxy cluster so hot and so mature that, according to existing cosmological models, it shouldn’t exist at all.
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NASA/Stringer/Getty Images Astronomers Just Found a Galaxy That Never Formed. Here’s What They Learned.
Astronomers might have found the closest thing yet to a galaxy that, like your slacker sibling, simply refused to grow up.
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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.
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Family Lifestyle/Getty Images A Mouse Just Had Babies After Going to Space. Here’s Why That Matters More Than You Think.
For scientists studying whether life can continue beyond Earth, that birth answers a question bigger than the moment itself.
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Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
