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Telescope on the background of the starry sky and moon. (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

The moon may be older than we thought

Nicole Karlis
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (KSC/NASA/Francisco Martin)

NASA astronauts stranded until March

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s concept shows interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) after its discovery in 2017. (NASA European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser)

NASA detects more dark comets

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Bringing the universe into focus

Mark Wolverton - Undark
This handout photo taken and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on December 5, 2024, shows the launch of PSLV-C59 carrying two satellites of European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)/AFP via Getty Images)

Satellites launched to create eclipses

Matthew Rozsa
This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI))

James Webb challenges cosmic theories

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Venus (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

Venus probably never had an ocean: study

Matthew Rozsa
Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Solvent extractions of the Ryugu samples on a clean bench (ISO6, Class 100) inside a clean room (ISO5, Class 1000) performed by Hiroshi Naraoka at Kyushu University in Japan. (JAXA/NASA)

Asteroid bacteria not aliens after all

Matthew Rozsa
The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wanna escape Earth? Too bad space sucks

Levi Stallings
Meteor shower composite created from 44 individual photos that includes the Milky Way. (Getty Images/CRAIG TAYLOR)

Rare outburst meteor shower this weekend

Matthew Rozsa
Elon Musk and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance listen as Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Vance plan to colonize universe is awful

Brian Kateman
Orionids Meteor Shower in Ashland, Oregon. (Credit: davidhoffmannphotography / Getty Images)

Meteor shower to pass Earth this weekend

Matthew Rozsa
The Northern Lights are seen above the Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point Lookout in the early morning hours of May 11, 2024 in Latourell, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Geomagnetic storm to bring auroras again

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

James Webb telescope a gift to humanity

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Relatively close exoplanet discovered

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of the University of Arizona and a team of researchers around the world. (Rachel Amaro, University of Arizona)

Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Woman with lantern watching a comet passing (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

How to see the "comet of the century"

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's impression of Earth ring system (Oliver Hull)

Earth may have once had ring like Saturn

Rae Hodge
Planet Earth and the Moon (Getty Images/forplayday)

Earth gets temporary second moon

Matthew Rozsa
This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Black hole "starving" galaxy to death

Matthew Rozsa
The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date. (European Southern Observatory)

Compact galaxies are masters of disguise

Fabio Pacucci - The Conversation
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Rocket failure grounds SpaceX

Griffin Eckstein
Colonization of distant planet (Getty Images/gremlin)

Astronomers warn against colonialism

Mary-Jane Rubenstein - The Conversation
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