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missing matter in the universe found

Astronomers use deep-space flashes to find Universe’s missing matter

Astronomers pinpoint whereabouts of "fog" between galaxies.

Artist's impression of Planet Nine

A Planet Nine might be lurking in the outer Solar System

Wide-orbit planets are not anomalies.

Pluto's surface

Webb confirms Pluto’s atmosphere cools with haze

‘Crazy idea’ about cooling effects of Pluto’s haze confirmed.

WASP-121b

Astronomers use the Webb Telescope to study WASP-121b

New clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed.

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

Milky Way may not collide with Andromeda

Hubble casts doubt on certainty of galactic collision.

A close up jupiter planet of the solar system

Jupiter was once twice as prominent with a supercharged magnetic field

A detailed look into Jupiter's primordial state.

vesta asteroid

One of the most significant objects in our solar system’s asteroid belt doesn’t have a core

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet.

A digital illustration of the immense explosion of this double white dwarf binary star system, named WDJ181058.67+311940.94. In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode (Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick)

Astronomers spot two white dwarfs on a collision course

A rare binary star pair destined for supernova just 150 light-years away

Neptune Auroras (Hubble and Webb Image)

Webb captures Neptune’s mysterious auroras for the first time

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating...

Radioburst Dwarfstar Binary

Stellar union sparks radio pulses lasting minutes

Compact objects other than neutron stars are capable of producing bright radio emission.

asteroid bennu

Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample

Conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

spiral galaxy NGC 1086

Unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

Enhanced understanding of AGN environments and host galaxy interactions.

early-agn

Most distant and therefore oldest blazar ever seen

Early universe had more supermassive black holes than previously thought.

trans-Neptunian objects

Webb gives the best glimpse ever into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system

A clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved.

TRAPPIST-1 b

The light of the planet TRAPPIST-1 b measured in two color

New insights on the planet’s nature.

colored view of Jupiter

Astronomers discovered two great spots at the Jupiter’s north and south poles

Unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.

The asteroid is believed to have a dirty, icy crust

Ceres: From ocean world to icy giant

Asteroid Ceres is a former ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb.

Nearby Basins

Fresh insights into the large-scale cosmic structure

Study mapped out the gravitational “basins of attraction” in the local Universe.

Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107b

A glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

The exoplanet WASP-107b is tidally locked to its star.

'Pablo's galaxy'

A black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death

However, this galaxy is essentially ‘dead’.

binary system

A long-hidden small black hole discovered in an unusually evolved binary system

Scientists discovered a low-mass dark object located in the binary system G3425.

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