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X-ray astronomy and planet-hosting stars
X-ray astronomers explored how quickly young stars settle down after blasting the space around themselves - including any possible planets - with energetic radiation.
September 10, 2017
What drives Jupiter’s brightest auroras?
The sun drives Earth's auroras. But Jupiter’s brightest auroras may be accelerated by processes within the giant planet's own magnetic field.
September 9, 2017
Pluto features get names
The 14 geological features are the first to be officially named, following the New Horizons spacecraft's close flyby of Pluto in July 2015.
September 8, 2017
Asteroid 3122 Florence: Video and images
This large asteroid swept closest to Earth on September 1. It's big enough that astronomers are still catching it in small telescopes, as a small, slow-moving “star.”
September 8, 2017
How many house-sized NEOs?
A new study shows house-sized NEOs - Near-Earth Objects - to be 10 times fewer than studies had indicated. Still, there are some 3.5 million NEOs larger than 10 meters across.
September 5, 2017
Artificial intelligence probes gravity’s lens
Researchers at SLAC and Stanford have been using brain-mimicking neural networks to analyze the spacetime distortions of gravitational lenses. They say their analysis is 10 million times faster than before.
September 5, 2017
Millions of stars
This image sequence from ESA's billion-star surveyor - Gaia - looks toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy and captures some 2.8 million stars.
September 4, 2017
A new look at ocean worlds
Here's how the James Webb Space Telescope - successor to Hubble, due to launch in 2018 - will study Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
September 4, 2017
Asteroid Florence found to have 2 moons
3122 Florence passed yesterday, biggest near-Earth object to pass so close in a century. Radar revealed 2 orbiting moons! Plus a chart that'll help you spot the asteroid.
September 2, 2017
Alien seekers report 15 more fast radio bursts from FRB 121102
Breakthrough Listen – an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – used the Green Bank Telescope to observe the bursts from the mysterious distant object known as FRB 121102.
September 2, 2017
