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A detailed image reveals an unusual plasma jet structure, suggesting the presence of two merging supermassive black holes at the galaxy’s core. For more than a century and a half, the distant galaxy ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

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NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

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Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be ...