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A white satellite dish is huge and faces the sky.

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home

By Monisha Ravisetti published

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish. This one will be at the DSN facility in Canberra, Australia.

Astronomy
A person drawing on a piece of paper in the darkness. Three other pieces of paper show the sun.

Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms

By Meredith Garofalo published

Experts share why Trump-mandated cuts to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center share is a big deal.

Earth
An illustration of a red world with white streaks.

Nearby exoplanet could offer clues about atmospheres around hot, rocky alien worlds

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their own "air."

Exoplanets
a silver open-air four-wheeled vehicle on a showroom floor

Lunar Outpost unveils sleek new 'Eagle' moon rover (photos)

By Brett Tingley published

Lunar Outpost unveiled its new "Eagle" moon rover at the 40th annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and it looks straight out of science fiction.

The moon
a comet with a long tail streaks through a star filled sky above trees.

Newly discovered Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) captured in stunning photo blazing across UK skies

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The striking Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) photograph was captured by astrophotographer Josh Dury at 4:50 a.m. local time on April 9.

Comets
An artist's illustration of the hot Jupiter exoplanet CoRoT 2b, which has a strange westward-blowing hotspot in its atmosphere, scientists say.

How science gets tested on alien worlds: 'We quickly realize how much there is yet to discover'

By Victoria Corless published

New insights into the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres indicates planet-wide rainfall might take place following hydrogen atmosphere and water mixing.

Exoplanets
A visualization of the Earth toward the right, the moon in the center and the asteroid in the foreground toward the left.

We now know the shape of notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 that dominated headlines recently — it's probably 'suburban,' too

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for Earth-crossing space rocks, a new study finds.

Asteroids
An illustration of a rotating black hole blasting jets from its poles

Could we use black holes to power future human civilizations? 'There is no limitation to extracting the enormous energy from a rotating black hole'

By Robert Lea published

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human civilisation?

Black Holes
An illustration of molecular gas around the protocluster core SPT2349-56

This baby galaxy cluster is powering extreme star formation with a hidden fuel tank

By Robert Lea published

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of intense star formation.

Astronomy
The record galaxy RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 and its spectra as seen by the JWST

Record-breaking 'dead' galaxy discovered by JWST lived fast and died young in the early universe

By Robert Lea published

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the Big Bang.

Astronomy
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