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Exoplanets, Observing, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Mercury reaches its peak

How did astronomers discover that the expansion of the universe was accelerating?

April Fool’s!

Did the Chicxulub asteroid help trigger volcanic activity?

Einstein’s relativity

Supercomputer black hole collisions make fake gravitational waves

Exotic Objects, Milky Way

A guide to the black holes in our backyard

Gerard van Belle: The lives of stars

That’s astronomy, too

Robotic Spaceflight

If we know the path that both the Milky Way and our solar system have been on, could Hubble not look back on that path and see both at some point in the past?

Vega is said to rotate at about 87 percent of the speed that would tear it apart. If it ever reached that speed, what would an observer on Earth witness?

Strange indeed