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Every star you see in the sky, including the sun, will someday die. It’s best to get used to that idea now, before things start to get heavy.

First, some background. A huge collaboration of astronomers is currently busy spending some hard-won cash to build the world’s largest radio telescope array, called the Square Kilometre Array.

Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, and every month seems to bring in a new batch of weird, wild, and wonderful worlds.

Gold had to come to Earth from somewhere, right? So why not outer space?

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to scientists to have dedicated their careers to the study of black holes.

All planets with evidence of life please take a step forward. Not so fast, Venus.

All Stars die. Some stars go out with a bang. Some stars go out with a big bang — a supernova. And some stars are capable of something so spectacular, so rare, we don't even have a name for it yet.

Does the presence of a stinky gas mean there was once life on Venus?

So you may have heard the news by now that an asteroid is hurtling towards the Earth.

Europa to be specific. Yes, I know it’s a crazy question, but hear me out. This will be fun.

According to NASA, "A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying." But what happens when a black hole dies?

There was a time, a time long, long ago, before the first stars appeared. The universe was young then and less than a billion years old. But will the fall of light be the end of the universe?

So the astronomers called it “FarFarOut”, which is mostly a joke because the last time they found such a distant object it they nicknamed it “FarOut”, and this new world is much, much, farther out.

Headline after headline is sharing the exciting news: a pair of theoretical physicists have realized that our sci-fi dreams may be real: it may be possible to build an actual, operational warp drive. One problem: it doesn’t go all that fast.

Super Earths are super cool, and you should really know about them. In short, they are planets slightly bigger than the Earth (hence the name). And the cool part? They might be a home for life, and they’re way easier to study than regular Earths.