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Toxic Perchlorate on Mars Could Make Life More Interesting
The search for life in the Universe has fascinated humans for centuries. Mars has of course…
Astronomers Propose a 14-Meter Infrared Space Telescope
The Universe wants us to understand its origins. Every second of every day, it sends us…
A New Venus-Sized World Found in the Habitable Zone of its Star
The parade of interesting new exoplanets continues. Today, NASA issued a press release announcing the discovery…
Webb Explains a Puffy Planet
I love the concept of a ‘puffy’ planet! The exoplanets discovered that fall into this category…
Bright green fireball over Montana, U.S.
I’m a dedicated researcher, journalist, and editor at The Watchers. With over 20 years of experience…
The Largest Camera Ever Built Arrives at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
It’s been 20 years in the making, but a 3200-megapixel camera built especially for astrophysics discoveries…
This is the Largest Planet-Forming Disk Ever Seen
Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, there is a cosmic structure known as IRAS 23077+6707 (IRAS 23077)…
Maybe Ultra-Hot Jupiters Aren’t So Doomed After All
Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects in the cosmos, classified as…
Could Alien Solar Panels Be Technosignatures?
If alien technological civilizations exist, they almost certainly use solar energy. Along with wind, it’s the…