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Star-packed Triangulum Galaxy shines in new Hubble Telescope image
By Samantha Mathewson published
The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets
By Keith Cooper published
By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.
Watch Live: Boeing Starliner is about to return to Earth without its crew
By Brandon Specktor published
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth today after undocking from the International Space Station without its crew. A livestream of the mission begins at 5:45 p.m. ET.
Asteroid 10 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock smashed Jupiter's largest moon off its axis
By Harry Baker published
New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely one of the biggest asteroid impacts the solar system has ever seen.
The oldest evidence of Earth's atmosphere may be hiding in rocks on the moon
By Stephanie Pappas published
The moon hasn't had a magnetic field for 4.36 billion years. That means it could hold fragments of the ancient Earth.
A particularly active 'aurora season' could be just weeks away
By Jamie Carter published
September could be a prime time to see vibrant auroras, thanks to a quirk of Earth's tilt that leads to more intense geomagnetic activity around the equinox.
One of the universe's biggest paradoxes could be even weirder than we thought, James Webb telescope study reveals
By Ben Turner published
New James Webb Space Telescope results have revealed that there may not be a Hubble tension after all. But contradictions within the findings point to a deeper mystery.
Best star projectors 2024: Bring the cosmos indoors
By Tantse Walter last updated
BUYING GUIDE The best star projectors transform your home into a mesmerizing, other-worldly space — whether you want to sleep under the stars or learn more about astronomy.
Astronomers discover oldest known eclipse reference in 6,000-year-old Hindu text
By Paul Sutter published
A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish."
Asteroid slams into Earth triggering stunning green 'fireball' above the Philippines — 8 hours after it was 1st spotted
By Harry Baker published
On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere. The "harmless" space rock quickly burned up as predicted, creating a bright green streak across the night sky before spectacularly exploding.
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