Astronomers used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a young planet. The researchers suspect it could become a super-Earth exoplanet, or a mini-Neptune.

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Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer to take the first close-up pictures of a star outside the Milky Way.

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Astronomers used NASA telescopes to capture images of the "Guitar Nebula" in deep space, an object created by a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar.

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A camera attached to the International Space Station captured real-time footage of the SpaceX Starship launching its sixth test flight,

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After a year of exploring a Martian valley, NASA's Curiosity rover is driving to a new location to explore an unusual "boxwork" formation, where microbes could have existed.

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A common misconception is that light-years measure time. But in astronomy, this unit conveys how far one space object is to another.

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SpaceX's sixth Starship test flight was largely successful, but plans to catch the first-stage Super Heavy booster were abandoned.

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Astronomers have scrambled to collect as much data as possible about Earth's temporary mini moon before it leaves. They've discovered it could have a lunar origin.

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The International Space Station has an ongoing leak that the agency calls a "top safety risk." Here's how the leak is being managed on the aging orbital laboratory.

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A Martian meteorite that landed on Earth more than a century ago has helped scientists learn about the history of water on the Red Planet.

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Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe three early ultra-massive galaxies, formed shortly after the Big Bang.

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With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a sulfur-rich atmosphere, a hint of volcanic activity.

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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years later, scientists found the cause.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch its Starship rocket and spacecraft again soon. NASA is depending on it to get humans back on the moon.

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The satellite company NanoAvionics revealed that a chickpea-sized object hit its MP42 Satellite, and provided evidence. It's not clear if it was space debris or a micrometeoroid impact.

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A National Academies report suggests the failure of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico may have been exacerbated by the radio telescope's powerful electromagnetic radiation.

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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find that a black hole was consuming matter 40 times faster than thought possible.

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Researchers using NASA's NICER X-ray telescope discovered a neutron star spinning 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning known objects in the universe.

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