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LIGO and Virgo probably spotted the first black hole swallowing up a neutron star

In a first, astronomers may just have detected gravitational waves from a black hole merging with a neutron star.

By Emily Conover | 6:06pm, August 15, 2019

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Astrobiology

News in Brief | Astrobiology

A new algorithm finds nearby stars that could host hidden worlds

By Lisa Grossman | 8:00am, June 25, 2019

News | Astrobiology

Mars’ lake may need an underground volcano to exist

By Lisa Grossman | 1:04pm, February 19, 2019

Soapbox | Astrobiology

It’s time to start taking the search for E.T. seriously, astronomers say

By Lisa Grossman | 6:00am, January 28, 2019
Astronomy

News in Brief | Astronomy

Astronomers just quintupled the number of known repeating fast radio bursts

By Lisa Grossman | 3:10pm, August 14, 2019

Rethink | Astronomy

A proposed space telescope would use Earth’s atmosphere as a lens

By Emily Conover | 11:55am, August 09, 2019

News | Astronomy

Exploding stars scattered traces of iron over Antarctic snow

By Emily Conover | 6:00am, August 09, 2019
Cosmology

News | Cosmology

Debate over the universe’s expansion rate may unravel physics. Is it a crisis?

By Emily Conover | 6:00am, July 30, 2019

News | Cosmology

Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate

By Emily Conover | 2:01pm, July 16, 2019

Reviews & Previews | Cosmology

Carbon plays a starring role in the new book ‘Symphony in C’

By Sid Perkins | 6:00am, June 10, 2019
Exoplanets

News | Exoplanets

TESS has found the first-ever ‘ultrahot Neptune’

By Lisa Grossman | 10:39am, July 30, 2019

News | Exoplanets

Gaps in gas disks around stars may not always mark newborn planets

By Lisa Grossman | 8:00am, July 16, 2019

News | Exoplanets

Moons that escape their planets could become ‘ploonets’

By Lisa Grossman | 10:02am, July 09, 2019
Particle Physics

News | Particle Physics

How a 2017 radioactive plume may be tied to Russia and nixed neutrino research

By Emily Conover | 3:45pm, July 29, 2019

News | Particle Physics

Dark matter particles won’t kill you. If they could, they would have already

By Lisa Grossman | 6:00am, July 25, 2019

News | Particle Physics

The highest-energy photons ever seen hail from the Crab Nebula

By Emily Conover | 7:00am, June 24, 2019
Planetary Science

News | Planetary Science

A planetary body may have smashed into Jupiter, creating its weird core

By Maria Temming | 1:00pm, August 14, 2019

News in Brief | Planetary Science

India’s first lunar lander is on its way to the moon

By Lisa Grossman | 5:36am, July 22, 2019

Science Visualized | Planetary Science

Night-shining ‘noctilucent’ clouds have crept south this summer

By Carolyn Wilke | 10:00am, July 16, 2019

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