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SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions in 2025

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Satellites could use magnetic fields to avoid collisions

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Mars once had a vast sea the size of the Arctic Ocean

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Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early…

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Step back 1000 years, look up at the night sky and you might notice some extra…

Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova

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The most important second in the entire history of the universe

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Earliest ever supernova sheds light on the first stars

James Webb Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster containing the SN Eos supernova Astronomers have…