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Space.com

A runaway supermassive black hole ejected from its own galaxy, possibly in a tussle with two other black holes, is being trailed by a 200,000 light-year-long chain of infant stars, a new study reports.

CBS News

Lighting up the overnight sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked into orbit early Friday carrying an Intelsat communications satellite hosting a $210 million NASA-Smithsonian spectrometer designed to measure air quality and pollution across North …

Space.com

“The Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography And Spectroscopy (VERITAS) mission is facing a critical juncture. NASA has indefinitely delayed the launch date and removed program development outlays for FY [fiscal year] 2024 and beyond.

Astronomy Magazine

Sunrise: 6:31 A.M.. Sunset: 7:33 P.M.. Moonrise: 11:46 P.M.. Moonset: 8:18 A.M.. Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (87%).

Space.com

When it comes to weather, prediction is the key to preventing disaster — and that’s true of space weather, too. A new AI-powered computer model called DAGGER is specifically trained to predict precisely when and where solar storms will strike Earth, …

CNN

Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals for more than 200 million years. And humans have been using some of these eggs as a nutritious source of food …

Space.com

If you’re the kind of person who can spend hours upon hours clicking around Google Earth, there’s a new toy for you. NASA has just released the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. Created by the Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization …

Space.com

While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might be the most powerful off-Earth observatory ever, there are limits to how far it can see. Fortunately, JWST’s already-sharp vision is aided by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, as a stunning new …

Space.com

An enormous, circular halo of eerie red light, which looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, recently flashed in the night sky above Italy. The bizarre disk appeared and disappeared within milliseconds, meaning most people likely missed the strange …

Livescience.com

For the first time, astronomers have linked mysterious pulses of energy called fast radio bursts (FRBs) with the ripples in space-time emitted by collapsed, colliding stars. The findings, published March 27 in …