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![Mars' Inca City formation (left) is overrun with mounds of black 'spiders' (right), a regular springtime phenomenon on the Red Planet](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vK7VvWQ9ZUxkkjohyc7Wjb-320-80.jpg)
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos
By Stephanie Pappas published
Every spring, creepy black 'spiders' sprout up on Mars as buried carbon dioxide ice releases dusty geysers of gas. New ESA images show the phenomenon has begun in the strange Inca City formation.
![A telescope image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way that contains clues to the early composition of the universe.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UVHy92GumzwSathks57AH7-320-80.jpg)
Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours
By Jonathan Gilbert published
An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It hints that conditions were not the same everywhere when the first stars forged the elements for life.
![Hubble Telescope observations of the glorious galaxy M82, bursting with white starlight and red gas clouds. Stars are forming 10 times faster here than in our Milky Way, according to NASA.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/43L2Fg4CZLoQtP6Rpsw2rL-320-80.jpg)
Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
An incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside the Milky Way, which could be the first of many extragalactic magnetars, according to new research.
![(Left) The Milky Way's central supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. (Right) screenshots from a 3D simulation of flares around Sgr A*.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/voQo3bWxm9zQiYsqnJP8xL-320-80.jpg)
Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equations
By Robert Lea published
An explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.
![An image of the sun with four areas circled](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q8uB3gAK2Q4CdvNragRvyP-320-80.jpg)
4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout
By Harry Baker published
In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar storm toward Earth.
![A faint red blob of light in the night sky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hN4Kdwpk38MPiEPCFpMu4F-320-80.jpg)
Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again
By Harry Baker published
On April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into space. It is the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon caused by the company's dying rockets.
![Giordano Bruno crater (the white, rayed crater on the right) may be the source of the peculiar near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KvkWPTJbLgyYQhSHxXpAdS-320-80.jpg)
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
By Stephanie Pappas last updated
The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.
![Artist impression of NASA's Voyager 1 probe traveling through interstellar space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ikjVRXhJaJriyA9SCabvrj-320-80.jpg)
After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again
By Sascha Pare published
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.
![China’s Tiandu-2 experimental lunar satellite took this far-infrared image of the moon and Earth (bottom center) on April 8, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RhS9AsUp9xpx3CvW6Nms4J-320-80.jpg)
Haunting photo of Earth and moon snapped by China's experimental lunar satellites
By Andrew Jones published
China's experimental moon satellites Tiandu-1 and 2 are testing lunar communications and navigation tech. Recently, they shared this image of the lunar surface with a ghostly Earth in the background.
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