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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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James Webb Space Telescope captures the beauty of a rare, violent phenomena

These 6 galaxies are so huge, they’ve been nicknamed ‘universe breakers’

JWST’s latest new galaxy discoveries mirror the Milky Way

Hubble telescope spies Saturn’s rings in ‘spoke season’

A college student built an AI to help look for alien radio signals

A green comet is visiting us from the edge of the solar system, and astronomers are thrilled

Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young

The James Webb Space Telescope just identified its first exoplanet

Dark matter, Jupiter’s moons, and more: What to expect from space exploration in 2023

JWST has changed the speed of discovery, for better or for worse

JWST’s new image unveils a field of glittery galaxies

James Webb Space Telescope reconstructed a ‘star party,’ and you’re invited

Sorry, Star Trek fans, the real planet Vulcan doesn’t exist

The James Webb Space Telescope just identified its first exoplanet

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

Black hole collisions could possibly send waves cresting through space-time

Wiggly space waves show neutron stars on the edge of becoming black holes

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

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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

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