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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.


A perfect ten-sided storm materialized at Saturn's south pole when Cassini stopped watching

Planets may become habitable just as they're stripped of water to support life

Physicists staked decades on gravitational waves before the universe finally answered

Early supernovae could have seeded rocky planets just 100 million years after Big Bang

Teen's AI algorithm unearths 1.5 million hidden celestial objects

Five Earth oceans could erase continents but leave waterworlds habitable

Static electricity makes alien-like grains defy gravity in lab tests

Virginia and West Virginia surrendered 13,000 square miles to protect a cosmic listener

Nitrogen hides in Earth's air despite filling 78% of the atmosphere

November geomagnetic storm pushed GPS errors beyond 10 metres across US farmland
