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The latest on the missions plunging far beyond of Earth's orbit, including Voyager I, the Parker Solar Probe, and JUICE.

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Voyager 2 diagram with equipment labeled
Science

NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power

By Andrew Paul

JUICE image of Earth's radiation belt
Science

NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt

By Andrew Paul

an illustration of an orange dot orbiting a larger orangish body in space
Science

Astronomers discover a new exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to the sun

By Laura Baisas

Artwork of cubesats in the sky.
Technology

CubeSats, the tiniest of satellites, are changing the way we explore the solar system

By Mustafa Aksoy / The Conversation

Artist concept: The LSST will carry out a deep, ten-year imaging survey in six broad optical bands over the main survey area of 18,000 square degrees.
Science

How AI’s data-crunching-power can help demystify the cosmos

By Briley Lewis

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, NGC 6357, Messier 17, NGC 6188, Messier 22 and NGC 3603. All of them are clouds of gas and dust where stars are forming, except Messier 22, which is a very dense group of old stars.
Science

1.5 billion cosmic objects dazzle in the largest infrared Milky Way map ever created

By Andrew Paul

Z Machine operating at Sandia National Laboratories
Science

Could nukes deflect an asteroid? ‘X-ray scissors’ offer scientists clues.

By Andrew Paul

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed.
Science

Biggest black hole jets ever seen span 140 Milky Way galaxies

By Andrew Paul

This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission.
Science

What was the first color in the universe?

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our Sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.
Science

Searching for the secrets behind the Little Red Dots

By Fabio Pacucci / The Conversation

Illustration of the cases where one impulse Δv = 10−1 m s−1 from a small asteroid impact has been applied to Apophis.
Science

Astrophysicist predicts (slightly) higher chance for major asteroid impact in 2029

By Andrew Paul

The Green Bank Observatory contains eight dishes that detect radiation from objects in space in the form of radio waves.
Science

Why the ‘Wow!’ signal is probably not from aliens after all

By Briley Lewis

a space telescope image of multiple shining stars in reddish clouds
Science

JWST spots six new ‘rogue worlds,’ neither planet nor star

By Laura Baisas

ALMA antennae bathed in red light. in the background there is the southern Milky Way on the left and the Magellanic Clouds at the top.
Science

Why astronomers keep staring at the same spot in the sky

By Briley Lewis

Two images displaying possible kilonova
Science

Scientists want your help finding black holes with your phone

By Andrew Paul

Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago. The illustration shows an asteroid impacting at Chicxulub. Shown in the background are planet Mars and asteroid bodies.
Science

Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep space beyond Jupiter

By Andrew Paul

Ancient star, but not one of the first: One of the oldest known stars ever observed is a subgiant star in the Milky Way, just 190 light-years from Earth. The star, known as HD 140283 or the Methuselah star, appears to be almost as old as the universe. However, we know it is not one of the first stars because of it contains metals that must have formed in the core or during the explosion of even earlier stars.
Science

The hunt for the first stars in the universe

By Briley Lewis

The central region of a spiral galaxy. Its core is a small bright point radiating bright, bluish-white light over the scene. The white light is diffuse and many point-like stars in the galaxy (and even background galaxies) can be seen through it. The galaxy’s arms can be seen as broad, swirling streaks of glowing gas and dust, coloured red and orange. Two additional arms are revealed in green
Deep Space

You’ve never seen a prettier radiation-spewing supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

a red aurora along with the stars of the milky way over mountains
Science

19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

By Popular Science Team

In the foreground to the left is a sphere half illuminated on the right side, almost filling the image vertically. The surface consists of several parallel, pale-coloured bands aligned horizontally. To the top right is a much smaller orange, circular light source, illuminating the large sphere in the foreground. The background is black with numerous tiny white dots.
Science

JWST detects a new exoplanet six times larger than Jupiter

By Tom Hawking