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Planetary ScienceSolar system’s future could be bumpy
A new study assesses the chances that two planets will collide or a planet will plunge into the sun in the next 5 billion years.
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AstronomyPinning down a pulsar’s age
Reporting at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers suggest some of these swirling stellar remnants are older, younger by a factor of 10.
By Ron Cowen -
LifeHummingbird pulls Top Gun stunts
Male hummingbirds set record for extreme plunges out of the sky.
By Susan Milius -
SpaceGalactic black holes may be more massive than thought
The giant black holes at the cores of massive nearby galaxies may be two to four times heftier than estimated.