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NASA confirms meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNTNASA shared an initial analysis of a 5-foot-wide fireball meteor that exploded in the sky over the northeastern U.S. on Saturday, May 30.
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'Astonishing': James Webb telescope spots the most chemically primitive galaxy in the ancient universeThe James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.
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'I would never have guessed it': Unexpected effect is squeezing Mars' atmosphere like toothpaste, experts sayResearchers have uncovered an unexpected phenomenon, dubbed the Zwan-Wolf effect, squeezing plasma "like toothpaste" in Mars' upper atmosphere. This effect, which also happens on Earth, was thought to be impossible on the Red Planet.
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Controversial 'JuMBO' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may not be an illusion after allTwo pairs of "rogue" Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new study claims. The findings suggest the weird objects actually do exist, and are not an illusion.
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James Webb telescope discovers 'naked' black hole that somehow formed before its own galaxyAstronomers weighed a black hole in a "little red dot" discovered by the James Webb telescope. They found it to be so overmassive that it may have formed before its host galaxy had a chance to develop.
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Brilliant-green fireball meteor explodes over erupting volcano in the PhilippinesMultiple videos show a rare "fireball" meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock hit the volcano, but this was untrue.
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Bizarre patterns on Venus have scientists puzzledScientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.
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The solar system's largest moon may be heating upThe largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.
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Mars looks blue and bruised in surreal new images from Psyche spacecraft — Space photo of the weekOn its way to a metal asteroid, NASA's Psyche probe tested its cameras as it got a gravity assist from the Red Planet.
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