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Space.com

NASA’s latest flagship telescope is still in its first year of science, but the agency isn’t only hard at work building its successor — it’s starting to plan that next mission’s successor as well. In November 2021, a decadal document produced by the …

Space.com

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “Assassin”) first spotted the violent incident, referred to as a tidal disruption event (TDE), via a flash of high-energy radiation. The feast is taking place at the heart of a galaxy 300 million …

Space.com

A Martian meteorite that crashed in Morocco 11 years ago contains a vast diversity of organic compounds, which could help researchers discover if Mars could have hosted life and provide important clues about Earth’s geological history.

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover just caught another glimpse of its pioneering robotic cousin. The car-sized Perseverance snapped a photo recently of the Ingenuity helicopter as the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) rotorcraft sat atop a Red Planet sand dune.

Phys.Org

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight mission successfully launched on Dec. 11, 2022, to begin its four-month journey to the moon, where the small satellite, or SmallSat, will test several new technologies with a goal of looking for hidden surface ice at the lunar …

CNET

Larger than the Milky Way, this wave managed to form a mysterious hydrogen “recycling plant” in one of space’s scariest regions. Monisha Ravisetti headshot.

Phys.Org

In the eROSITA all-sky survey, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have found an interesting repeating event. In an otherwise quiescent galaxy, an X-ray flare repeats every 220 days, indicating that a star orbiting …

Phys.Org

Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole’s gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation …

Astronomy Magazine

The James Webb Space Telescope began sending its first images back to Earth in the summer of 2022. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via Flickr, CC BY. NASA …

The Weather Channel

Ever since its launch in 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been busy searching for planets orbiting nearby stars. And the probe has now helped scientists identify an Earth-sized world orbiting within the habitable zone of …