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• A solar probe is on its way to touch the sun. The Smithsonian built the tool that will measure the sun without melting

  20 August 2018

  

   

• Space is the best place to eat ice cream

  3 July 2018

  

   

• The real history behind science fiction’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

  9 May 2018

  

   

• Scientists surprised by relentless cosmic cold front

  4 April 2018

  

   

• Underpaid women “computers” mapped the universe in the 19th century

  27 March 2018

  

   

• Black hole blasts may transform “Mini-Neptunes” into rocky worlds

  27 February 2018

  

   

• Magnetic reconnection in the sun

  21 February 2018

  

   

• Astronomers detect comets transiting distant stars

  1 February 2018

  

   

• GBT Detection Unlocks Exploration of ‘Aromatic’ Interstellar Chemistry

  11 January 2018

  

   

• Cosmic filament probes our galaxy’s giant black hole

  20 December 2017

  

   

• A new stellar X-ray “reality” show debuts

  27 November 2017

  

   

• Next generation astronomical survey to map the entire sky

  27 November 2017

  

   

• Fifth mirror cast for Giant Magellan Telescope

  3 November 2017

  

   

• Astronomers see light show associated with gravitational waves

  16 October 2017

  

   

• New study indicates mysterious fast radio bursts occur in universe every second

  21 September 2017

  

   

• In search for life, ultraviolet light may be ultra important

  31 August 2017