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What Are Interstellar Comets and How Do They Work?
Interstellar comets are icy visitors from other star systems that pass through our solar system on hyperbolic trajectories. Only three have ever been...
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Interstellar comets are icy visitors from other star systems that pass through our solar system on hyperbolic trajectories. Only three have ever been...
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When two neutron stars collide, they unleash one of the universe's most violent events — a kilonova that forges gold, platinum, and other heavy elemen...
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Gaganyaan is India's ambitious crewed space mission, designed to carry three astronauts to low Earth orbit and return them safely — making India only...
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Scientists have discovered that the Sun's interior leaves measurable structural "fingerprints" between solar cycles — a breakthrough that could dramat...
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Since 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected hundreds of mysterious compact red objects in the early universe. Scientists are debating whet...
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Scientists have identified ferric hydroxysulfate, a potentially brand-new mineral, in ancient sulfate-rich sediments on Mars. The discovery, published...
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Most stars are not alone in space. Multiple star systems — pairs, triples, and quartets locked in gravitational embrace — are surprisingly common, and...
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Megamasers are among the most powerful natural phenomena in the universe — radio beams billions of times brighter than ordinary cosmic masers, born fr...
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Cosmic voids are the vast, near-empty bubbles that make up most of the universe's volume. Far from being irrelevant, these giant hollows are key to un...
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Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe but emits no light and defies direct detection. Here is what scientists know about it, how they proved it exi...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...
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The aurora borealis is one of Earth's most spectacular natural phenomena — but the physics behind those shimmering curtains of color is equally remark...
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