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These black holes collided so hard they made space-time jiggle

Uranus blasted a gas bubble 22,000 times bigger than Earth

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is whirling faster than ever

See the heart of the Milky Way as it’s never been captured before

NASA recorded a black hole’s song, and you can listen to it

One of Einstein’s predictions on black holes has finally been confirmed

A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offers a glimpse of Earth’s future

These strange radio signals might not be coming from stars

Watch a black hole devour simulated stars

Gaze upon the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

A fully aligned James Webb Space Telescope captures a glorious image of a star

The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to start blowing our minds

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Despite pushback, NASA won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope

New JWST image shows a hidden, fiery protostar

New James Webb Space Telescope image shows a secluded galaxy in stellar detail

To set the record straight: Nothing can break the speed of light

JWST give a new look at the Pillars of Creation’s majestic explosion of young stars

What spun this exquisite deep-space ‘spider web’? (Hint: not aliens.)

A new VR exhibit takes you inside the James Webb Space Telescope’s images

X-ray vision adds a whole new layer to James Webb Space Telescope images

Engineers made synthetic alien lava to understand uninhabitable worlds

SpaceX and NASA are studying how to bump Hubble into higher orbit

See a spiral galaxy’s haunting ‘skeleton’ in a chilly new space telescope image

This highly detailed image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula might finally help us understand how it formed

Ridiculously hot gas giant exoplanet is about to be swallowed by its dying sun

This weird dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system has a new origin story

Engineers made synthetic alien lava to understand uninhabitable worlds

A new class of super-watery planets may exist beyond the solar system

In a first, James Webb Space Telescope reveals distant gassy atmosphere is filled with carbon dioxide

Newly discovered exoplanet may be a ‘Super Earth’ covered in water

Exoplanet hunters want to block starlight with a giant orbiting shade

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first glimpses into deep space reveal 4 mind-blowing finds

We may be underestimating how many cold, giant planets are habitable

NASA’s official exoplanet tally has passed 5,000 worlds

Scientists wielded giant lasers to simulate an exoplanet’s super-hot core

Space probably has way more ‘rogue planets’ than we thought

To set the record straight: Nothing can break the speed of light

‘Rogue black holes’ might be neither ‘rogue’ nor ‘black holes’

NASA recorded a black hole’s song, and you can listen to it

Gaze upon the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

With the arrival of Africa’s next radio telescope, Namibia sees a new dawn in astronomy

Giant black holes and dark matter may share a hot origin story

This kilonova could have created the first-ever extragalactic ‘sonic boom’

Albert Einstein and Hubble may have helped us find an invisible black hole

See the heart of the Milky Way as it’s never been captured before

We’re still in the dark about a key black hole paradox

Black holes have a reputation as devourers. But they can help spawn stars, too.

The James Webb telescope could help solve the mystery of dark matter

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