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Black hole (Getty Images/Petrovich9)

How to juice energy from a black hole

Nicole Karlis
Astronaut James H Newman and Carl E Waltz, mission specialists, practice space walking techniques and evaluate tools to be used on the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission scheduled for later in the year, 16th September 1993. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

On almost breaking the Hubble telescope

Mike Massimino
Artistic rendering of the possible view from LHS 3154b towards its low mass host star. Given its large mass, LHS 3154b probably has a Neptune-like composition. (Penn State, CC BY-NC-ND)

Planet discovered is too big for its sun

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Rae Hodge
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
Mars habitat landscape (Getty Images/CoreyFord)

Are we ready to head to Mars? Maybe not

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia))

James Webb reveals new Milky Way details

Nicole Karlis
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
Comet (Getty Images/Ricardo Filipe/500px)

"Devil comet" to swing by Earth in 2024

Rae Hodge
Astronaut Gui Haichao is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site on October 31, 2023 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Wang Xiaobo/VCG via Getty Images)

Chinese astronauts return after 6 months

Rae Hodge
Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Rae Hodge
Planet Earth with a pile of garbage spilling into outer space (Getty Images/urfinguss)

The "enshittification" of tech in space

Rae Hodge
This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Astronomers found a distant radio burst

Matthew Rozsa
The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

Rae Hodge
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Solar storms could cause major damage

Matthew Rozsa
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. (Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's plan to deorbit the ISS explained

Rae Hodge
The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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