Astronomers have spotted a sextuple star system – in which six stars orbit each other –…
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NASA gives up trying to burrow under Mars surface with 'mole' probe
For nearly two years, a heat probe attached to NASA’s InSight lander, nicknamed the mole, has…
An Earth-like planet might orbit our closest single sun-like star
Tau Ceti is a star just 12 light years away – and it could host a…
Most distant quasar may help us solve how enormous black holes form
Astronomers spotted a quasar containing a supermassive black hole about 13 million light years away, which…
White dwarfs seen eating the remnants of destroyed planets
Signs of the metals that make up Earth’s crust have been seen in the light coming…
We may have found hints of gravitational waves permeating the universe
When supermassive black holes merge, they create a low thrum of gravitational waves that permeates the…
The Milky Way may have less dark matter than astronomers thought
Our galaxy may have slightly less dark matter than expected from theoretical estimates, according to a…
Black holes leak energy when they eat plasma near the event horizon
When magnetic fields around a black hole reconnect, they can slow down plasma particles near the…
Meteorites may have brought water to Earth in the recent past
We thought meteorites stopped delivering liquid water to Earth billions of years ago – but they…
Jumping into a wormhole might cause it to contract and disintegrate
Adding energy to a wormhole connecting two universes can push it out of equilibrium, which may…