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Doorbell camera captures 1st-ever video of the sound and sight of a meteorite crash-landing
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
A doorbell camera recorded a rare video of the moment a meteorite fell outside a home.
James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
By Stephanie Pappas published
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
Watch SpaceX rocket explode over Grand Turk island in dramatic stream of fire and smoke
By Pandora Dewan published
Debris from the rocket's explosion was caught on camera by a family vacationing on Grand Turk island.
'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers one of the earliest 'truly gargantuan' supernovas ever seen
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun.
'Totally amazing' astronaut photo captures comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS shooting past Earth from the ISS
By Harry Baker published
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.
How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
By Robert Lea published
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.
How to photograph the northern lights
By Kate Goldbaum last updated
Auroras can generate some truly spectacular images, but what's the best way to photograph the northern lights?
Did people report seeing UFOs before the 20th century?
By Elana Spivack published
Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history?
Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
By Harry Baker published
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.
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