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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.


James Webb has caught at least five galaxies colliding about 800 million years after…

The Sun ejects roughly a billion tons of charged plasma in a single coronal mass…

In July 2026, Europe's Euclid telescope found 31 of the oldest quasars ever seen, two…

We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons…

An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich…

In June 2026, the James Webb telescope read the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121b…

We assumed water had to be delivered to planets by comets or asteroids

Astronomers believe the Milky Way may contain billions, perhaps even trillions, of…

In July 1962, a single missing hyphen in the guidance code of NASA's Mariner 1 probe…

Brain scans of ISS astronauts show the organ quietly re-weighting its own senses during…
