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Quasar Eats Gas, Throws Up
A rare breed of black hole, 15 million light years away, sheds light on a cosmic mystery
715 New Planets Found (You Read That Number Right)
A major haul by the Kepler space telescope has astronomers cheering
Caught on Camera: Supernova Spits Out Pulsar
A remnant of a stellar explosion zips through space—and sends us signals as it goes
Hawking: Is He All He’s Cracked Up To Be?
We all know that Stephen Hawking is the greatest living physicist—but what we all know may not be true
A New Supernova Caught in the Act
Stars don’t explode on schedule; when one does, it can shed real light on some cosmic mysteries
Hello, Neanderthal! Yes, This Means You.
We’re carrying around a lot more genes from our caveman cousin than we ever knew
Hawking: Black Holes Do Exist. Now the Complicated Part
Steven Hawking introduced the idea of black holes to all of us, then seemed to take them back. But not so
Old Mars Rover Finds New Signs of Life
The Opportunity rover, still chugging across Mars after 10 years, has found that the planet might have been surprisingly biology-friendly
The Asteroid That Thought It Was a Comet
The difference between an asteroid and a comet was always thought fixed—but now a new paper says the two celestial bodies may be more similar than we thought