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Space is a seemingly infinite world of wonder and discovery, filled with mysterious black holes, stunning solar flares, elusive exoplanets and countless cosmic oddities. Our team of expert science writers and editors are ready to hold a James Webb Space Telescope-size lens beyond Earth, keeping those on this planet up to date with the latest space news, articles and features. 

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an early solar system with a star at the center and the first planets forming in a disk around it
'Modest, humble, and uncommonly smart': How a Soviet mathematician quietly solved the mystery of planet formation "For years, he had the field of planetary formation, which he had created, virtually to himself. Most Soviet colleagues were skeptical and uninterested; his research appeared so speculative, so far removed from any evidence."
Check out our best binoculars for stargazing. In this image, a man is standing behind his car using a pair of binoculars to look at the stars.
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JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata during his second spacewalk.
15 jaw-dropping spacewalk images Fearless astronauts push the limits in these epic spacewalk photos.

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A black hexagonal box with an orange eye in the center, sitting in the Utah desert. This is the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, safely landed on Earth

NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule returns to Earth with a sample from the 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu

By Ben Turner published

A capsule containing 2 ounces of rocky material from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu has landed safely in the Utah desert after a seven-year mission in space.

Space Exploration
An image of the orange disk of the sun surrounded in a bast, glowing ring of spikes called the corona

Space photo of the week: The sun's violent corona like it's never been seen before

By Jamie Carter published

The sun's outer atmosphere was captured at previously impossible extreme ultraviolet wavelengths thanks to a last-minute engineering hack.

The Sun
Red dirt on Mars surface. Woman wearing futuristic exoskeleton exploring cave and mountain areas.

What would colors look like on other planets?

By Joanna Thompson published

Here's how your brain might adjust to see color on another world.

Planets
Highly stylized view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

James Webb telescope finds potential signature of life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa

By Stephanie Pappas published

The discovery of seemingly home-grown carbon dioxide suggests Europa's ice-covered ocean could be habitable.

Jupiter
A photo of the moon in its First Quarter phase

What is the moon phase today?

By Colin Stuart last updated

Reference A look at the phases of the moon, from new moon to full moon, including's tonight's lunar phase.

Reference
A galaxy grouping called Stephan’s Quintet, which contains an imposter galaxy that is actually much closer to Earth than the others.

An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glare

By Robert Lea published

A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.

Black Holes
An artist's Illustration of Hoʻoleilana.

Mysterious 'fossilized' bubble 10,000 times the size of the Milky Way could be a relic from the Big Bang

By Ben Turner published

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup.

Astronomy
Mercury.

Mercury reaches its highest point in the sky this weekend. Here's how to see it.

By Jamie Carter published

A bright, yellowish spot in the morning sky is actually Mercury making a rare daytime appearance. Here's how to see it at its highest and brightest this week.

Mercury
A far out shot of a rocket seperating

Oops! US Space Force may have accidentally punched a hole in the upper atmosphere

By Harry Baker published

A rocket carrying a Space Force surveillance satellite may have created a hole in the ionosphere as it shot into space. The launch was carried out with just 27 hours' notice, which is a new record.

Space Exploration
Crab Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Nuclear 'pasta' cooked up by dead stars could unravel the secrets of stellar afterlife

By Paul Sutter published

In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange 'pasta' shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

Cosmology
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