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Join Space.com's 25th Anniversary Virtual Panel on July 17: The Next 25 Years of Space Exploration — To the Moon, Mars and Beyond
By Space.com Staff published
Be sure to join visit Space.com at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) on July 17 for what promises to be an amazing discussion on the future of space exploration and astronomy.
20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigation
By Harry Baker published
Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confirms. Experts are currently investigating what went wrong.
Black hole growth is slowing down in the universe. New research could help explain why.
By Fan Zou, W. Niel Brandt published
Black hole growth is slowing down, suggests a team of astrophysicists who looked back in time across the universe's 13.8 billion-year history.
What would happen if a black hole wandered into our solar system?
By Ashley Hamer published
Black holes aren't "cosmic vacuum cleaners," but what would happen if one wandered into our solar system?
Space photo of the week: Warped 'penguin galaxy' spotted by JWST is waddling toward certain doom
By Brandon Specktor published
To mark its second anniversary of operations, James Webb Space Telescope scientists share a stunning view of the Penguin and Egg galaxies as they slowly collide.
Milky Way's rarest black hole may lurk behind 7 stars that 'shouldn't be there'
By Harry Baker published
Seven strangely-behaving stars in the Milky Way's Omega Centauri cluster may be under the influence of an extremely rare type of black hole, new research suggests.
James Webb Space Telescope sees an ancient black hole dance with colliding galaxies
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers measure 'warp speed' of Milky Way galaxy
By Keith Cooper published
The Milky Way is warped, possibly as the result of a collision with another galaxy billions of years ago. Studying this warp could reveal more about the structure of our galaxy's hidden matter.
James Webb telescope spies bejeweled 'Einstein ring' made of warped quasar light
By Harry Baker published
New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery.
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