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Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse mystery with 1st-ever sighting of secret companion (photo, video)
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that has persisted for millennia.

ESA selects 5 rocket companies for European Launcher Challenge
By Andrew Jones published
Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-selected for ESA's €169 million launcher initiative.

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history
By Jamie Carter published
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.

South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045
By Mike Wall published
South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now.

This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mars pressure test. Can astronauts use it to build on the Red Planet?
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bring long-term space colonization closer to reality.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,000 new cosmic explosions: 'We're definitely expecting the unexpected'
By Robert Lea published
Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these explosions and many more powerful and violent cosmic events.

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms
By Keith Cooper published
The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: 'Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song'
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'
By Robert Lea published
Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.
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