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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 artist's impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. A stellar-mass black hole orbits with a companion star located 7,200 light years from Earth.
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An artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun.

1st mission to 'touch' the sun discovers a mysterious source of solar wind

By Ben Turner published

NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged into the sun's atmosphere to capture the granular details of how its solar wind is made.

The Sun
Image of disk-galaxy Andromeda taken by Hubble space telescope

What is a light-year?

By Jesse Emspak last updated

A light-year is a measure of the distance it takes light to travel through interstellar space over the course of a year.

Astronomy
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By Lloyd Coombes published

Save over $70 on these Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 binoculars that are tailor-made for stargazing.

Astronomy
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 small black hole orbits a supermassive black hole in the galaxy OJ 287.

Flare of light brighter than a trillion suns reveals location of rare double black hole galaxy

By Stephanie Pappas published

Brilliant new signals from a far-off galaxy confirm that the system is anchored by a pair of black holes locked in a daring dance.

Black Holes
A gassy blue ball of a galaxy with a long, cloudy tail trailing behind it to the bottom right

Enormous structure discovered near doomed galaxy group is the longest galactic 'tail' ever seen

By Joanna Thompson published

The 1.5-million-light-year-long gas trail was caused by a group of galaxies moving 3 million miles per hour

Cosmology
a star blasting multi-colored jets of energy out of its left and right side against a background of dark space

Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric of space-time

By Briley Lewis published

New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational waves.

Black Holes
A blue dot surrounded by an orange rings on a black background. In the left corner, a red dot glows.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules in the known universe, 12 billion light-years from Earth

By Joanna Thompson published

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away — the furthest and oldest ever detected.

Cosmology
A blue sky with the sun surrounded by a white circle bisected with a white line and two bright spots either side of the circle.

Ethereal 'halo' and light arcs around the sun captured in photos of ultra-rare phenomena

By Harry Baker published

At least three separate optical phenomena are visible in the new images. Each of which is created by light refracting through millions of perfectly aligned ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.

The Sun
A telescope image of distant galaxies, showing thousands of bright stars and galaxies on a black background. In a zoomed-in box is the pale, faint galaxy detected in this new study.

James Webb Space Telescope finds the faintest galaxy ever detected at the dawn of the universe

By Ben Turner published

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.

Cosmology
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