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Artwork depicting a system of planets around a red dwarf star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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A small section of a huge image of the Tarantula Nebula, a sprawling star-forming gas cloud in a nearby galaxy. Credit: ESO
Revisiting the Tarantula Nebula to find an old friend
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Science Behind the Fiction: Predator suggests autism is human evolution - is that true?
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Exoplanet News: Astronomers have found Vulcan!
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Geek Road Trip: New Hampshire's massive UFO festival
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How sci-fi anime like Cowboy Bebop bridges the gap between science and fiction
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The Weather Channel turns to video game tech to show the dangers of Hurricane Florence
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Josephine Silone Yates, a groundbreaking black woman and STEM educator
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SpaceX has signed its first Moon tourist for new mega-rocket
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Apollo astronauts changed the moon forever, but not in the ways you think
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A planet and a blooming trifid by a lagoon
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Sagittarius is a richly populated area of the sky, evidenced by this stunning image of nebulosity and stars… and a visitor. Credit: Roberto Colombari
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Cassini totally just won an Emmy
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Cassini image of Saturn
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Geek Road Trip: Seattle’s Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
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Thanks to a huge black hole, this galaxy grew an extra pair of arms
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The inner disk of the spiral galaxy M 106 shows a pair of “anomalous arms”, actually gas heated by emission from the central black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgmen
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Exclusive: Teen refugees stride across America in Boom!'s new sci-fi series, Low Road West
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NASA is testing out a supersonic parachute for landing Mars rovers
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Science Behind the Fiction: If aliens existed, would they hunt us down, like in Predator?
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An ancient fading ghost of a massive star haunts the night
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The supernova remnant HBH 3 can be seen as wispy red tendrils in this Spitzer Space Telescope image. The other objects are star forming regions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC
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Exclusive: First look at massive Earth foldout in 'I Am Neil Armstrong', writer Brad Meltzer on the 'heroes we need'
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Mars Mission 1, brought to you by Coca-Cola? Maybe, as NASA considers corporate sponsorships
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Gorgeous lunar swirls record the Moon’s ancient magnetism
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Lunar swirls in Mare Marginis (literally, “Margin or Border Sea”, since it’s on the edge of the Moon’s near side). Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
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