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Space.com

A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. Comments (0). A dark planet is seen against the background of space. A small star seems to.

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SANDUSKY, Ohio — Ohio, the home of the Wright Brothers, is known as the “Birthplace of Aviation.” But the state also has some serious spaceflight bona fides, as we were reminded during an event on Thursday (Feb. 1).

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The XMM Newton space telescope caught a black hole “flipping over the table,” preventing its parent galaxy from birthing new stars.

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Strands of gas, dust and stars stretch through the cosmos and embed galaxy clusters, influencing their evolution. Comments (0). An illustration shows a galaxy ensnared within a cosmic web. An illustration shows a galaxy ensnared within a cosmic web of …

Spaceflight Now

For the first time, Sierra Space mated its Dream Chaser spaceplane to the Shooting Star module amid shake table testing at NASA’s Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. An orbital-class spaceplane is one step closer to …

The Planetary Society

Get ready for an exciting year of space happenings. From a total solar eclipse to the launch of a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, there are plenty of cosmic events to look forward to. Here’s a tour of what to expect.

CNN

The unique preservation of the Sanfordiacaulis densifolia tree, where the trunk is surrounded by more than 250 spirally arranged leaves, was the result of earthquakes in a 352-million-year-old rift-lake system, now exposed in New Brunswick, Canada.

Space.com

The four astronauts of the private Ax-3 mission will depart the International Space Station in their SpaceX Dragon capsule on Saturday morning (Feb. 3) and you can watch the action live. Ax-3’s Crew Dragon “Freedom” is scheduled to undock from the …

CBS News

(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured scintillating images of 19 spiral galaxies – and the millions of stars that call them home – in unprecedented detail never seen before by astronomers. Webb’s singular ability to observe the universe …

CBS News

Temperatures in parts of the world got so hot last year that it caused certain areas of the ocean to experience hot tub-level temperatures, which killed off essential coral reefs. The situation was unprecedented, to the point that researchers had to …