The First 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Shot the Sky. In Just 10 Hours, It Did What Would Have Taken Years
SpaceDuring its inaugural use, it discovered 2,104 new asteroids.
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Astronomers Combined 10,000 Images From the James Webb Telescope to Create the Largest Map of the Universe Yet. However, Something Doesn’t Match
SpaceThe images span 13.5 billion years—98% of the universe’s history—in one region of the sky.
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The Good News: Our Solar System Has a New Minor Planet. The Bad News: It Only Swings By Every 25,000 Years
SpaceIts orbit raises new questions about the existence of Planet Nine.
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Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Discover a ‘Dark Matter Bridge’ Using His Predictions
SpaceThe recent finding addresses a mystery surrounding the Perseus cluster.
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NASA’s Longest-Serving Astronaut Returns to Earth on His 70th Birthday: What Does This Mean for Space Photography?
SpaceAfter being extracted from the Soyuz capsule, Don Pettit required medical attention. He’s finally back home safe and sound.
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Pink Moon, Explained: How to Watch and Why the Color Has Nothing to Do With its Name
SpaceThe Pink Moon will be visible in North America on Saturday, April 12. Here's what you need to know.
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The Webb Telescope Has a New Friend in Space: ‘We Are Literally Mapping the Entire Celestial Sky’
SpaceNASA’s SPHEREx telescope will observe more than 450 million galaxies, complementing the James Webb Telescope and providing clues about what to observe.
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Astronomers Thought They Had Counted All of Saturn’s Moons. After Studying Them for a Year, They Received Quite a Surprise
SpaceTheir research revealed that Saturn has 274 moons, nearly twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined.
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NASA’s Most Powerful Computer Has Detected Something Unusual: A Spiral Structure Surrounding the Solar System
SpaceAlthough the model is reliable, verifying the structure’s existence will require direct observations. This poses a massive challenge due to its remoteness and low brightness.
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How to Watch Blood Moon From U.S. on March 13
SpaceEven vampires will want to catch the Blood Moon on March 13. (Bad joke, we know).
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The Webb Telescope Has Observed the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way and Discovered a Chaotic Light Show
SpaceThis phenomenon is marked by a constant flickering and a series of intense but random bursts of brightness that act like a disco ball.
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Calisto Is the Second-Largest Moon on Jupiter. It’s Also the Place Where We Just Discovered an Ocean
SpaceNew evidence suggests that an ocean of liquid, salty water lies beneath Callisto’s ice.
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X-Ray Telescopes Reveal an Inconceivable Object: A Superstructure That Spans More Than a Billion Light-Years
SpaceThe so-called Quipu is the largest superstructure ever identified.
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Curiosity Continues to Send Videos From Mars Back to Earth. Its Latest One Reveals Something Unusual About the Planet’s Clouds
SpaceNow more than a decade old, Curiosity continues to send back valuable data and captivating images from the Martian surface.
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Astronomers Keep Proving Einstein Right 110 Years Later: The Euclid Telescope Has Discovered a Ring in Spacetime
SpaceAlbert Einstein predicted it in 1915. Scientists have seen it in photos today.
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Physics Is Broken, and the Evidence Is Mounting. The New Hubble Constant Estimate Deepens the Problem
SpaceExperts have recalculated the universe’s expansion rate, deepening the discrepancy.
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Astronomers Thought They’d Found a New Asteroid Near Earth. It Turned Out to Be Elon Musk’s Space Trash
SpaceAstronomers rang in the new year with the discovery of a new asteroid. It turned out to be Elon Musk's trash.
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The Planetary Parade, Explained: How to Watch the Rare Planetary Alignment This Month
SpaceEven planets know how to line up in a straight line (more or less) sometimes.
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