Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer at Kyoto University in Japan, received an intriguing email a couple…
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Comet Nishimura: How and When to See It This Weekend
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanAstronomy aficionados are buzzing about a bright new comet. The ball of dust and ice…
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NASA’s New Air Pollution Satellite Will Give Hourly Updates
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanWhen scientists switched on the instrument aboard a new satellite this summer, they got a…
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How a Harvard Professor Became the World’s Leading Alien Hunter
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanIf Loeb’s mother had been around at that point, he said, she would have tried…
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How and When to Watch the Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanOn any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance that you’ll see…
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Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanFree-floating planets — dark, isolated orbs roaming the universe unfettered to any host star —…
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NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Build a Nuclear-Powered Rocket
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanA Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to Mars What if a…
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What do a cow, a koala, a camel, a Tasmanian devil and now a finch…
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Lightning Can Strike, but It Can’t Hide From a ESA Satellite
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanLightning comes and goes in brilliant and terrifying flashes. With powerful enough satellites in orbit,…
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Quaoar Had One ‘Impossible’ Ring, Then Astronomers Found Two
by Joe Holmanby Joe HolmanWhy It Matters Scientists still do not fully understand how dust and gas in the…
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