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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Haunting new moon images reveal enormous crater deeper than the Grand Canyon near the lunar south pole
By Jeff Spry published
This striking composite shot of the lunar south pole appears in National Geographic Magazine's special space issue out on Sept. 19.

Watch: NASA spacecraft flies through a violent solar explosion for 1st time ever — and survives unscathed
By Ben Turner published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged through a hellish coronal mass ejection (CME) to capture its mysterious swirlings on film.

'Ghost' particles from the sun could lead us straight to an invisible trove of dark matter
By Paul Sutter published
New research suggests that the sun may hold dark matter in its fiery heart, and ghostly particles called neutrinos could lead us to it.

'Grand cosmic fireworks': See the stunning winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contest
By Josh Dinner published
The winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 15th annual astrophotography contest will blow you away.

Green comet Nishimura survives its superheated slingshot around the sun. Will we get another chance to see it?
By Harry Baker published
Comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, has survived its closest approach to the sun and will brighten over the next week. But is it still visible from Earth?
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