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Scientists calculate age of massive neutron star crash that helped form our solar system
The neutron-star merger that showered the solar system with its precious metals was fairly close and fairly recent.
The Thirty Meter Telescope: How a volcano in Hawaii became a battleground for astronomy
What could a massive new telescope in Hawaii teach astronomers about the universe — and why are some native Hawaiians fiercely opposed to the project?
What if scientists could find potentially habitable worlds just by looking at stars?
Looking for life traditionally starts with finding a planet with the right temperature — but scientists are working to find new criteria for tracking down potentially habitable worlds.
Meet LUVOIR, which might become one of NASA's next big space telescopes
NASA faces a difficult choice: What does the agency want to select as its next big space telescope, the instrument that will shape scientists' research in the 2040s?
Hubble telescope test inspires changes to combat gender bias in some NASA programs
Stars don't see gender, and now, NASA is working to not see it either when allocating telescope time to scientists, inspired by a successful experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Meet the unknown female mathematician whose calculations helped discover Pluto
Pluto's discovery wouldn't have been possible, astronomers have realized, without the calculations of a mathematician whom history has forgotten.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe spotted 'stealth' outburst on the sun
Coronal mass ejections aren't known for being subtle: Each such event can fling huge amounts of the soup of charged particles called plasma off the sun and out into the solar system.
Balloon-lofted camera built to hunt alien worlds aces first flight
Photographing an alien world is incredibly difficult. Now try doing it from a massive balloon high in Earth's atmosphere.
