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How Pulsars Work—the Universe's Cosmic Lighthouses Science

How Pulsars Work—the Universe's Cosmic Lighthouses

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that sweep beams of radiation across space like cosmic lighthouses. Here is how they form, why they tick wi...

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How Lightning Works on Jupiter—and Why It's So Extreme Science

How Lightning Works on Jupiter—and Why It's So Extreme

Jupiter produces lightning bolts up to a million times more powerful than Earth's. From ammonia mushballs to stealth superstorms, here is how the gas...

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How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space Science

How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space

Nuclear propulsion promises to cut Mars travel time in half by using fission reactors to power spacecraft, offering far greater efficiency than chemic...

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How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One Science

How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One

Building a permanent outpost on the Moon requires solving extreme challenges from radiation and temperature swings to construction with local soil. He...

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What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form?

Red giants are enormous, cool stars in a late stage of stellar evolution. When a star exhausts its hydrogen fuel, its core contracts while its outer l...

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What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move? Science

What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move?

Antimatter is the mirror image of ordinary matter and annihilates on contact with it, making it the most expensive and volatile substance on Earth. He...

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What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form?

Billions of planets drift through the Milky Way without orbiting any star. Here's how these rogue worlds form, how scientists detect them, and why som...

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What Are Super-Puff Planets and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Super-Puff Planets and How Do They Form?

Super-puff exoplanets have the density of cotton candy despite being nearly the size of Jupiter. Scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope t...

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How Nuclear Clocks Work—and Why They Beat Atomic Ones Science

How Nuclear Clocks Work—and Why They Beat Atomic Ones

Nuclear clocks use energy transitions inside atomic nuclei rather than electron shells, promising ten times the precision of today's best atomic clock...

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How Meteor Fireballs Work—and Why They Boom Science

How Meteor Fireballs Work—and Why They Boom

Every day, thousands of fireballs blaze through Earth's atmosphere. Here's the science behind how space rocks become blazing streaks of light—and why...

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How Space-Based Solar Power Works—and When It May Arrive Technology

How Space-Based Solar Power Works—and When It May Arrive

Space-based solar power stations would harvest sunlight in orbit and beam it to Earth as microwaves. After decades as science fiction, falling launch...

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What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form?

Jellyfish galaxies trail long tentacles of gas and newborn stars as they hurtle through galaxy clusters. Here is how ram-pressure stripping creates th...

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