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Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots

South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket’s moon crash

Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past

'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data

DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets

The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos

It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse's Companion

Neptune's moon system is bizarre. JWST data helps explain why

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1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system

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Little red dots may mark temporary black hole phase

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Astronomers Spotted a Wandering Black Hole at the Edge of Its Galaxy. Then It Found a Snack

What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek

Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star

Scientists Finally Found the Universe’s Missing ‘Ordinary’ Matter

Astronomers have identified the long-elusive location of missing baryonic matter, revealing it exists as diffuse clouds surrounding galaxies.

The Rock That Killed The Dinosaurs Was One of The Rarest Types in The Solar System

One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon

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You can see Mars as rarely viewed in new NASA spacecraft photos

Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say

Astronomers suggest the Milky Way may have flipped sideways following a collision with a dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago.

Scientists Believed This Near-Earth Object Was an Asteroid for 28 Years. They Were Wrong

A near-Earth object misidentified as an asteroid for 28 years has been revealed as a 'dark comet.'

Astronomers Determine that Exoplanets Around Barnard's Star are Extremely Uninhabitable

Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight

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Ancient sandstorm leaves behind wreckage on Mars photo of the day for July 20, 2026

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Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: Artemis III will be NASA's most complicated mission ever

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Scientists looked at Antarctica from the air. What they saw has them worried

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Webb telescope discovers hidden planet in famous star system

Astronomers discover 1st atmosphere around a rocky Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

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99% of a core-collapse supernova’s energy is invisible

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The US Approves the Launch of a Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night

Vantablack: World's Blackest Paint Could Solve A Major Problem For Astronomy

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Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab

China’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon

A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe

A long-lived radio outburst from a nearby black hole is providing scientists with a rare glimpse into the properties of the early universe.

Dark energy flips its sign, but the Hubble tension refuses to budge

New data suggests dark energy may not be constant, though the persistent Hubble tension remains an unresolved cosmic mystery.

Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost?

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James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site

Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought

Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera

New images from the Hayabusa-2 probe confirm that asteroid Torifune is a contact binary, a two-part structure resembling conjoined space rocks.

Euclid telescope spots oldest quasars ever discovered, adding to "perplexing" space mystery

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Nearby "Super Earth" Could Host Life After All

New telescope measurements of the planet GJ 3378b have shifted its classification from a gas-heavy world to a potentially rocky, habitable Super-Earth.

Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive searches — from deep underground detectors to space-based observations

New observations and mapping efforts are attempting to uncover the nature of dark matter, which constitutes roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe.

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust

New research suggests a prolonged barrage of asteroids melted Earth's initial crust and may have played a role in sparking life.

In Anticipation of New Horizons Entering Interstellar Space, Researchers are Developing a Solar Wind Forecasting Method

Researchers are developing a solar wind forecasting method as NASA's New Horizons approaches the edge of the solar system.

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why

A martian rock has been found with high levels of carbon, origin unclear

In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight

‘Bizarre’ planet orbiting dead star may preview fate of our solar system

Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar spa

This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center

Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision

Astronomers have discovered a rare, glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure believed to be a cosmic shock wave from a supersonic galaxy collision.

Black hole's 'point of no escape' studied with the loudest gravitational waves ever heard

The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s

Uranus, Neptune May Be Magma Worlds, Not Ice Giants

James Webb Space Telescope catches 6 galaxies merging into one of the largest galaxies in the universe

Violent asteroid impacts may have helped spark life on early Earth

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy

In 1995, astronomers aimed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky that looked almost empty — a dark spot near the Big Dipper no wider than a pinhead held at arm’s length. After 10 days of exposures, the darkness resolved into roughly 3,000 gala

New coverage revisits the Hubble Space Telescope's deep field imaging and its ability to reveal thousands of distant galaxies in previously dark patches of sky.

NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy

Hubble Space Telescope images galaxy scientists thought was impossible to find

Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic compounds in Martian rocks, signaling potential signatures of ancient microbial life.

Oldest known asteroid impact on Earth dated to 3 billion years