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How many moons are in the solar system?
The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered?
James Webb telescope pinpoints brightest FRB ever detected
Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected in Earth's skies.
Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may be long lost siblings, JWST hints
New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".
An 'equinox eclipse' is coming in September
A partial solar eclipse is taking place just hours before the equinox flips Earth's seasons in September 2025. Here's where a few lucky humans will be able to see it.
Autumn equinox 2025: When does fall begin?
REFERENCE Equinoxes occur twice a year, with night and day being almost the exact same length all across the world. The next equinox is the September fall equinox, beginning on Sept. 22, 2025 in North America.
Solar tornado rages on the sun as a giant plasma plume erupts
There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image.
'Why would you even want to go?': Readers react to the hypothetical 400-year voyage to Alpha Centauri
Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.
Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
Scientists think they detected the first known triple black hole system in the universe — and then watched it die
Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.
