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After Artemis II's historic Moon flyby, the first since 1972, six groundbreaking space missions are set to launch by 2026. From hunting for lunar water to discovering Earth-like planets, these missions promise to transform our understanding of the cosmos.
Strange red lights in the young universe puzzled astronomers for years, but new research reveals they're young black holes wrapped in dense gas clouds, not impossibly massive galaxies. The discovery rewrites our understanding of how supermassive black holes grew in the early cosmos.
The James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2018, will peer back 13.4 billion years to reveal the first stars ever formed. Nobel laureate John Mather told Congress this $8.8 billion instrument could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos and help find signs of life on distant planets.
Gravitational wave data reveals proof of rare supernovae so powerful they completely vaporize stars without leaving black holes behind. The discovery helps explain a mysterious gap in black hole sizes across the cosmos.
Humanity has been reaching for the stars for nearly 70 years, and the journey keeps getting more amazing. From the first satellite beeping in orbit to robots exploring Mars, here's how we learned to dance among the cosmos. #
Mae Jemison, who made history in 1992 as the first woman of color to reach space, is calling for a new era of space exploration that includes everyone, not just billionaires. She believes expanding access and including social sciences could transform how we explore the cosmos.
Astronomers discovered one of the universe's oldest stars, a rare fossil from the second generation of stars ever born. The finding reveals how the first stars shaped the cosmos we see today.
Astronomers have more than doubled their catalog of gravitational waves, detecting 218 cosmic events from colliding black holes and neutron stars across the universe. These spacetime ripples are revealing secrets about how massive celestial objects form and evolve, opening an entirely new way to study the cosmos.
Astronomers just witnessed something no one has ever seen before: the birth of a magnetar, one of the universe's most extreme objects. The discovery proves Einstein was right about space-time and reveals how the brightest explosions in the cosmos actually work.
A mysterious visitor from beyond our solar system has been captured on camera by a Jupiter-bound spacecraft, giving scientists a rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our neighborhood. Only three interstellar objects have ever been spotted passing through our solar system.
Scientists just completed a major upgrade to a massive detector buried in Antarctic ice that catches neutrinos, mysterious particles that hold clues to the universe's biggest questions. The seven-year construction project will help researchers understand everything from exploding stars to the origins of the cosmos.
Two powerful space telescopes just spotted a galaxy cluster so massive and so old, it shouldn't exist according to our current understanding of the universe. The discovery could reveal secrets about how the cosmos grew up faster than anyone thought possible.
A stunning photograph captures the Rosette Nebula, a 100-light-year-wide flower of stars and gas glowing in deep space. Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher transformed 10 hours of observation into a breathtaking Valentine from the universe.
Four astronauts from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos just arrived at the International Space Station to begin eight months of groundbreaking research. Their work will help pave the way for future missions to the moon and Mars.
Scientists at Antarctica's South Pole just supercharged the world's largest neutrino detector, making it sensitive enough to see the invisible particles that hold secrets about exploding stars and the cosmos. The upgrade could help us witness a supernova in real time.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch this fall to photograph hundreds of millions of galaxies and unlock the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The mission will create the most detailed map of the cosmos ever made, covering 12% of the sky in just 18 months.
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible structure that holds our universe together. The breakthrough shows nearly 800,000 galaxies and helps explain how the cosmos evolved into its current form.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just confirmed the existence of a brilliant galaxy that formed only 280 million years after the Big Bang, pushing our view closer to the universe's beginning than ever before. The discovery is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the early cosmos.
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are cracking the code on neptunium chemistry, paving the way for more efficient production of the plutonium that powers our spacecraft exploring the cosmos. Their breakthrough helps secure America's ability to fuel the next generation of deep space missions.
After a year of protests, astronomers successfully convinced an American energy company to scrap plans for a massive facility that would have flooded Chile's pristine Atacama Desert with light pollution. The rare victory protects some of Earth's most powerful telescopes and the world's clearest views of the cosmos.
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