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- 30 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Is dark matter made of teeny tiny black holes from another universe? Welllll…
- 29 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Mars methane mysteriously missing
- 28 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Why is Earth still habitable after billions of years? In part, we're just lucky.
- 25 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Memories of the Blue Snowball
- 24 Dec 2020, 13:55 UTC The most distant astronomical object ever seen… in 1962
- 23 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC A planet eats a disk while the disk eats a nebula. It’s eating all the way down
- 22 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Wait. Jupiter has *how* many moons?
- 21 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC So, um, does anyone remember where we put that supermassive black hole?
- 19 Dec 2020, 17:30 UTC A signal from Proxima? Likely intelligent, unlikely from aliens
- 18 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC The star cluster that wasn't: How did M73 fool generations of astronomers?
- 17 Dec 2020, 15:16 UTC Defying death, a monster storm on Neptune makes a U-turn
- 16 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Black dwarf supernovae: The last explosions in the Universe
- 15 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC No, it's the end of the *year*, not the end of the *world*
- 14 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC The sky on fire: The cold flames of the Perseus Molecular Cloud
- 12 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC The Geminids are coming! Here's how to watch one of the best meteor showers of the year.
- 11 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Does Planet Nine exist? An alien world 300 light years away gives hope
- 10 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Our galaxy is blowing *enormous* hot bubbles into space and no one knows why
- 9 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Will the Sun's current sunspot cycle fizzle or crackle?
- 8 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Jupiter and Saturn align in the sky, their closest approach to each other in 400 years
- 7 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC A sunspot seen in jaw-dropping detail by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
- 4 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Gaia's map of the sky — with two *billion* stars
- 3 Dec 2020, 17:16 UTC Footage of the Arecibo radio telescope platform collapse
- 3 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Like a runaway locomotive, NGC 1265 is leaving a 'smoke' trail behind it
- 2 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC An ancient star city circles our galactic twin. In fact... it's *too* ancient
- 1 Dec 2020, 14:00 UTC Release the Kraken! Huge methane lakes on Saturn's moon Titan run deep.
- 30 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Don't panic, but we're 2,000 light years closer to the Milky Way's central black hole than w...
- 27 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Eat lasers, Carina Nebula!
- 26 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC You think *you're* isolated today? Meet the galaxy MCG+01-02-015
- 25 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC There's a big black spot on the Sun today… and scientists predicted it
- 24 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC How our galaxy will kill our solar system in a trillion years, planet by planet
- 23 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC The tweet that led to a science paper about galactic crepuscular rays
- 20 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Perseverance is humming along to Mars… and you can (literally) hear it!
- 19 Nov 2020, 16:30 UTC The giant Arecibo radio telescope to be decommissioned due to damage
- 18 Nov 2020, 16:00 UTC What created this eerie blue eye in space? Stellar cannibalism.
- 17 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC A near-Earth asteroid passing us in December may actually be an old Moon rocket
- 16 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC On Friday, a small asteroid passed just 400 km from Earth!
- 13 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC What you need to know for SpaceX and NASA's first official crewed launch
- 12 Nov 2020, 15:00 UTC Did astronomers just witness the explosive birth of a magnetar?
- 11 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Jupiter's moon Europa may glow due to salty irradiation
- 10 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC A blast of radiation reveals a nearby cold brown dwarf
- 9 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC A view of Earth… from Mars
- 6 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Planets around old red dwarfs may still get blowtorched by flares
- 5 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Breakthrough! Mysterious radio signal traced to a galactic minimonster
- 4 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC A doomed lander reveals one last secret: Comets are fluffy like cappuccino foam
- 3 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC Elect to take a respite from the day with a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy
- 2 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC UPDATE: Incredible footage of OSIRIS-REx tagging an asteroid
- 30 Oct 2020, 13:00 UTC The Universe is shaking: 39 new gravitational wave events added to the list
- 29 Oct 2020, 13:00 UTC TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet in its star's habitable zone
- 28 Oct 2020, 13:00 UTC What do 10 *million* stars look like?
- 27 Oct 2020, 13:00 UTC Astronomers find water on the Moon glowing in sunlight