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The Army denied Green Beret Richard Stayskal’s damages claim on the ground there was no evidence his cancer would be worse now if military doctors had not overlooked clear signs of a tumor in…

U.S. intelligence noted that heightened Chinese military activity in recent months will obscure their ability to pick up on early warning signs of an invasion of Taiwan, according to leaked…

We have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years. Most have them have been discovered by the transit method, where an optical telescope measures the brightness of a star over time. If the star dips very slightly in brightness,…

The sheer wealth of data current missions generate can overwhelm professional astronomers, so in the past decade, research groups have increasingly relied on citizen scientists. One project that calls upon…

The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to…

As of this article’s writing, NASA has indicated that 5,030 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,772 systems, with another 8,974 candidates awaiting confirmation. With next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space…

Inside a galaxy merger are hydroxyl molecules, composed of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. When one molecule absorbs a photon at an 18cm wavelength, it emits two photons of the same wavelength. When molecular gas is very…

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="ALMAThe Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest…

Artist’s impression of HAT-P-11b, an exoplanet orbiting its host star at just one-twentieth of the distance from the Earth to the sun. Credit: Denis Bajram/University of Geneva Researchers have identified the first signature of a…

Interstellar space is a graveyard of lost souls. Adrift far from any star, these planets float in the darkness like ghost ships in the night.Catching sight of one requires patience, and a good eye. But a new approach based on tens of…