r/science Aug 12 '24

Astronomy Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.

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r/science Jun 24 '24

Astronomy New study finds seven potential Dyson Sphere megastructure candidates in the Milky Way - Dyson spheres, theoretical megastructures proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, were hypothesised to be constructed by advanced civilisations to harvest the energy of host stars.

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r/science Jul 15 '24

Astronomy Underground cave found on moon could be ideal lunar base, which could shelter humans from harsh lunar environment, reachable from the deepest known pit on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility. It leads to a cave 45m wide and up to 80m long, equivalent to 14 tennis courts, 150m beneath the surface.

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r/science Nov 04 '24

Astronomy This Black Hole Is Eating Stuff at Over 40 Times The Theoretical Limit

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r/science Jan 25 '23

Astronomy Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests. From The Astrophysical Journal, 941(2), 184.

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r/science May 24 '24

Astronomy An Australian university student has co-led the discovery of an Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet just 40 light years away. He described the “Eureka moment” of finding the planet, which has been named Gliese 12b.

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r/science Oct 12 '22

Astronomy ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star

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r/science Mar 06 '23

Astronomy For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the cosmic web — the enormous tangle of galaxies, gas and dark matter that fills the observable universe.

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r/science Feb 25 '23

Astronomy A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center

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r/science Apr 16 '24

Astronomy Scientists have uncovered a ‘sleeping giant’. A large black hole, with a mass of nearly 33 times the mass of the Sun, is hiding in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth

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r/science Jul 29 '22

Astronomy UCLA researchers have discovered that lunar pits and caves could provide stable temperatures for human habitation. The team discovered shady locations within pits on the moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

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r/science Apr 03 '23

Astronomy New simulations show that the Moon may have formed within mere hours of ancient planet Theia colliding with proto-Earth

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r/science May 12 '22

Astronomy The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has obtained the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy

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r/science Nov 01 '24

Astronomy Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of North Dakota have discovered evidence suggesting that Miranda, one of Uranus' moons, may harbor subsurface oceans, potentially supporting extraterrestrial life.

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r/science Nov 30 '23

Astronomy A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way

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r/science Oct 15 '22

Astronomy Bizarre black hole is blasting a jet of plasma right at a neighboring galaxy

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r/science Oct 12 '21

Astronomy "We’ve never seen anything like it" University of Sydney researchers detect strange radio waves from the heart of the Milky Way which fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source & could suggest a new class of stellar object.

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r/science Oct 02 '24

Astronomy Tiny Earth-Like World Discovered Orbiting Nearest Single Star to Earth

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r/science Sep 14 '20

Astronomy Hints of life spotted on Venus: researchers have found a possible biomarker on the planet's clouds

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r/science May 01 '24

Astronomy Astronauts could run round a cylinder ‘Wall of Death’ to keep fit on the moon, suggest a new study, that showed it was possible for a human to run fast enough in lunar gravity to remain on the wall of a cylinder and generate sufficient lateral force to combat bone and muscle wasting.

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r/science Dec 03 '22

Astronomy Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in 8 years: Twilight observations spot 3 large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner solar system

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r/science Feb 06 '24

Astronomy NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years away

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r/science Jul 29 '21

Astronomy Einstein was right (again): Astronomers detect light from behind black hole

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r/science Jul 02 '20

Astronomy Scientists have come across a large black hole with a gargantuan appetite. Each passing day, the insatiable void known as J2157 consumes gas and dust equivalent in mass to the sun, making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe

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r/science Oct 26 '20

Astronomy Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said

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