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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Archive Find: A Protoplanet Candidate Around a Tiny Red Dwarf
Catching a planet while it is still being built is one of the hardest jobs in astronomy. Young planets sit...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Vanishing Transits: A Hidden Neighbour Tips a Hot Jupiter Out of View
Most planets found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) are known only by their shadows: a small, regular dip...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Quiet Collapse: Black Hole Mergers Point to Failed Supernovae
Most accounts of a massive star's death end with a bang. The core collapses, a shock wave rips through the...
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Orbiting a planet is mostly a matter of falling with style. Orbiting a pair of small asteroids is harder, because...
Quick Reads Flat Pack: A Caltech Robot Tests In-Space Assembly of a Truss
Most spacecraft leave the ground fully built and folded into a rocket fairing, and that puts a hard ceiling on...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Deep Field: The Sharpest LOFAR Radio Image Yet Counts 63,000 Sources
Point a radio telescope at an ordinary corner of the northern sky for long enough and it stops looking empty....
Quick Reads Pick a Side: Why Shape Matters for Nuclear Asteroid Deflection
If a large asteroid were found heading for Earth with too little warning to nudge it gently, the last resort...
Quick Reads Powered Swing: ESCAPADE Earth Flyby Sends Twin Probes Towards Mars
Miss a launch window to Mars and the usual penalty is a 26-month wait on the ground. NASA's twin ESCAPADE...
Quick Reads Final Unroll: Space Station Solar Arrays Complete a Five-Year Upgrade
Solar panels age like anything else left out in the sunshine, and the International Space Station's original wings were designed...