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When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?
By Paul Sutter published
New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system.

AI could solve puzzles posed by twin stars in 'mere minutes or seconds on a single laptop'
By Robert Lea published
A newly designed, AI-powered program could solve the puzzle of binary stars in mere seconds using a common laptop, a process that currently takes supercomputer clusters weeks.

What's at the center of Mars? Maybe the stench of rotten eggs
By Keith Cooper published
The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur.

Private Japanese spacecraft aims to land in the moon's 'Sea of Cold' this week
By Samantha Mathewson published
Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on June 5, notching a big milestone for Japan and for commercial spaceflight.

The Milky Way may not collide with neighboring galaxy Andromeda after all: 'From near-certainty to a coin flip'
By Robert Lea published
A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

Turning the Red Planet green? It's time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say
By Stefanie Waldek published
A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential path forward.

Super-magnetic dead star throws a violent temper tantrum as NASA X-ray spacecraft looks on
By Robert Lea published
NASA's X-ray space telescope IXPE has made the first observation of polarized light emerging from an outbursting magnetar, neutron stars that possess the universe's strongest magnetic fields.

'Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans
By Keith Cooper published
A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.

Astronomers discover black hole ripping a star apart inside a galactic collision. 'It is a peculiar event'
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.
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