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NASA's most powerful telescope detected a bright infrared signal twice from a patch of space that appears completely empty. Scientists can't explain what's causing the mysterious cosmic beacon.
For the first time ever, astronomers watched water clouds shift and change on a world outside our solar system, just like weather on Earth. The discovery brings us one step closer to understanding how universal the laws of nature really are.
New computer simulations reveal Earth's moon could have emerged fully intact within hours of a massive planetary collision 4.5 billion years ago. The discovery changes how scientists understand one of the solar system's most important cosmic events.
Scientists discovered a comet that slowed down, stopped, and then started spinning the opposite direction after jets of gas pushed it like a cosmic merry-go-round. The discovery happened by digging through old NASA data, proving that space observations made decades ago still hold new secrets.
The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed a spiral galaxy whose light began its journey to Earth right after dinosaurs went extinct. Scientists are using this remarkably clear view to unlock secrets about how galaxies evolve across billions of years.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered a galaxy that existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, breaking the record for the farthest cosmic object ever detected. The surprisingly bright galaxy is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the early universe.
Scientists just finished mapping 669 million galaxies over six years, and the good news is our understanding of how the universe works passed the test. The Dark Energy Survey reveals our cosmic models are on track, even as they point toward exciting new mysteries to solve.