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Two Water Worlds for the Price of One

In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to t…

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Planets in Kepler-37 star system designated ‘UGA-1785’ by NASA

The University of Georgia and its Franklin College of Arts and Sciences received the honor after the Kepler mission, NAS…

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Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe

Star-forming galaxy is the most distant ever found

a team of astronomers, which includes several from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered a dust-filled,…

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9-Year-Old Names Target Asteroid of UA-Led NASA Mission

Inspired by the spacecraft's "heron-like" appearance, a 9-year-old submitted the winning entry for a more memorable name of asteroid 1999 RQ36, from which the UA-led NASA mission OSIRIS-REx will scoop up a sample and return it to Earth in 2023.

Inspired by the spacecraft's "heron-like" appearance, a 9-year-old submitted the winning entry for a more memorable name…

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A heavyweight for Einstein

Observations of the most massive neutron star confirm Einstein's Relativity Theory

An international research team led by astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy used a collection of…

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