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NASA just greenlit its first Probe Explorer mission, a telescope that will peer into wavelengths of the universe we've never surveyed before. The $1.2 billion PRIMA mission could reveal how planets, stars, and even Earth's water came to be.
China's massive radio telescope just created the world's largest catalog of star-forming galaxies, detecting nearly five times more than the previous record. Scientists worldwide now have free access to data from 156,411 galaxies to unlock cosmic mysteries.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifts off August 30th to capture views 100 times wider than Hubble with the same crystal clarity. It will team up with James Webb to find exoplanets and map billions of galaxies across vast expanses of space.
A professional astronomer proved you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to explore the universe. His Facebook Marketplace find delivered stunning views of planets and deep space for the price of a dinner out.
A car-sized camera in Chile just started filming the entire southern sky every three nights for the next decade. Scientists say the project will discover things that "blow our minds" and reveal the invisible 95% of our universe.
A 21-year-old space telescope that hunts cosmic explosions is getting a robotic rescue mission to extend its life instead of retiring. NASA hired a startup to build and launch the first-ever commercial satellite servicing mission in under a year.
A telescope in Hawaii captured a breathtaking image of a dying star wrapped in a glowing, milky white sphere 1,500 light-years from Earth. The stellar finale reveals the beauty hidden in cosmic endings.
The world's most powerful space survey telescope just started collecting data, and it's already discovering asteroids at a mind-blowing pace. In its very first images, the Rubin Observatory found 1,500 new asteroids, including some spinning faster than scientists thought possible.
The European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, which will become the world's most powerful optical telescope. This groundbreaking project will bring humanity closer than ever to understanding our universe.
A groundbreaking space telescope set to launch this September will scan the universe 100 times faster than Hubble, potentially answering humanity's biggest questions including whether we're alone. One month of observations will equal a century of Hubble's work.
A powerful South African telescope is revealing a hidden universe between galaxies, discovering 60 cosmic structures never seen before. The breakthrough puts South Africa at the forefront of mapping how the universe actually works.