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As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

By Rebecca Boyle
May 16, 2019
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Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth’s size.

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The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

By Natalie Wolchover
May 1, 2019
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The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility of even more exotic physics.

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The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras

By Ann Finkbeiner
April 18, 2019
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Jim Gunn shaped the theory of the evolution of the cosmos before building cameras and spectrographs for major observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope.

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What the Sight of a Black Hole Means to a Black Hole Physicist

By Janna Levin
April 10, 2019
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The astrophysicist Janna Levin reflects on the newly unveiled, first-ever photograph of a black hole.

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The Scientist Who Cooks Up the Skies of Faraway Worlds

By Shannon Hall
April 8, 2019
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Astronomers will soon take their first glance at the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. Sarah Hörst is writing the guidebook for these exoplanetary explorers, one that will reveal what a distinctive atmosphere says about the world underneath.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

By Dan Falk
March 11, 2019
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The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?

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Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

By Rebecca Boyle
March 7, 2019
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Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make it easy for civilizations to spread across the galaxy, but still we might find ourselves alone.

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With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation

By Joshua Sokol
February 28, 2019
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Brief cosmic blips called fast radio bursts have puzzled astronomers since their discovery earlier this decade. Now researchers appear to be close to understanding what powers them.

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An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita

By Natalie Wolchover
February 4, 2019
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Priyamvada Natarajan has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents, especially dark matter and supermassive black holes.


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