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The “cosmic pinwheel” that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once thought, a new study suggests.

At the heart of the pinwheel lies a pair of massive, hot stars locked in a binary…

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• The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth?

• A new study…

The next stop for NASA’s asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old.

Lucy will fly past the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid on April…

Interferometry is a powerful tool in astronomy that links together one or more pairs of radio antennas, even those thousands of kilometers apart, to create a new and vastly more powerful “virtual” telescope called an…

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A SpaceX Raptor engine has exploded on a test stand in Texas, shows…

In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill through a series of tests to see if they could identify the presence of a predator—in this case, Adélie penguins—by squirting a slurry of penguin poop into the…