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NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above the Earth but, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that aliens are about to strike.Using an imaging instrument called the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts uncovered strange X and C shapes, which have been cropping up in surprising places at surprising times.The researchers found the structures dancing around the ionosphere – the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space – and say that the discovery could help improve radio communications and space weather forecasts.The ionosphere – which sits around 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 644 kilometres)...

NASA scientists discover strange structures hovering above Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has an eye for bling. A new image released by the European Space Agency shows the powerful telescope's latest — and decidedly glamorous — finding: a bright quasar that looks like a "bejeweled" ring. Quasars are a luminous form of active galactic nuclei...

James Webb Spots Distant Space Object With Jewel-Like Lights

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Seven years ago, the Cassini mission ended when the spacecraft dramatically crashed into Saturn, but the data it collected is still delivering results, revealing the secrets of Titan's oceans.

Before plunging to its death, NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight. The cave is inside...

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

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The object orbits just 0.1 light-years from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our Galaxy

For years, astronomers have been using the extremely steady flashes of light emanating from pulsars, the highly magnetized remains of dead stars that spin like cosmic lighthouses, to keep time on an atomic level of accuracy and observe gravitational waves. But there are fleeting moments when these highly regular pulses...

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of a giant nearby planet, the surface of which is literally freezing. In a statement about the incredible snap, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany explained that the exoplanet, named Epsilon Indi Ab for the red dwarf star system it was found in, is located a mere 12 light-years away — which, despite being tens of trillions of miles from our Earth, is incredibly close on a galactic scale.

James Webb Snaps Image of Planet in Neighboring Star System

NASA was reporting late Friday that an asteroid the size of an airplane traveling at an incomprehensible speed is headed Earth's direction, though it is unlikely to make contact, scientists said. The asteroid, named 2024 NB2, will get as close as 2,390,000 miles from Earth as it passes through the...

Asteroid headed toward Earth at remarkable speed

According to one team, creating the black hole is the easy bit.

How Humanity Could Power Starships By Creating Artificial Black Holes

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NASA released 25 new pictures in honor of the Chandra telescope's quarter-of-a-century anniversary in space.

NASA releases eye-popping, never-before-seen images of nebulae, galaxies in space

Episolon Indi is a trio of stars, which is a complicated situation already — but two of them aren’t even real stars; they’re brown dwarfs, objects just a smidgeon too small to be stars, but several smidgeons too big to be planets. And now the system boasts an enormous gas giant in its outskirts, where astronomers didn’t expect it to be.

Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One

There are eight planets in our solar system – plus poor old Pluto, which was demoted in 2006 – but what if there were more?Turns out that might be the case. Astronomers have calculated there is a 7 per cent chance that Earth has another neighbour hiding in the Oort cloud, a spherical region of ice chunks and rocks that is tens of thousands of times farther from the sun than we are.“It’s completely plausible for our solar system to have captured such an Oort cloud planet,” said Nathan Kaib, a co-author on the work and an astronomer at the...

Scientists discover secret planet hiding in our solar system

Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.

The discovery of a possible sign of life in Venus’ clouds sparked controversy. Now, scientists say they have more proof

Any night now, a "new star" or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won't set the sky ablaze, it's a special opportunity to see a rare event that's usually difficult to predict in advance. The star in question is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB, pronounced "T Cor...

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Explosion Is About to Reveal a 'New Star' in The Sky

Astronomers have created the most detailed weather report so far for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system. The international study – the first of its kind – reveals the extreme atmospheric conditions on the celestial objects, which are swathed in swirling clouds of hot sand amid temperatures of 950C.

Scorching Storms On Distant Worlds Revealed In New Detail By JWST

The newly discovered planet, identified by volunteer planet hunters and confirmed by scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues, has an exceptionally long orbit. This discovery provides valuable insights into planetary formation and stability within multi-star systems. Astronomers and citizen scientists have identified a planet within the habitable zone...

New Habitable Zone Planet Found in Unusual Star System

A new study has simulated the gravitational waves produced by a collapsing warp drive, offering a potential new way to search for advanced spacefaring civilizations. The research, conducted by an international team of physicists, explores the theoretical consequences of a warp drive malfunction using sophisticated numerical simulations. Warp Drives: From...

Gravitational Waves from Failed Warp Drives: A New Frontier in Space Exploration

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One raunchy piece of advice made Haliey Welch an internet sensation — though her fame has come with a price. The 23-year-old, best known as "hawk tuah girl," has had to deal with some rather creepy fans ever since a video of Welch giving a tip about intercourse went insanely viral online.

'Hawk Tuah' Girl Haliey Welch Says She Was Offered $600 to 'Spit in a Jar' After Her Lovemaking Tip

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A galaxy frozen in time has been hailed as the missing link in black hole formation, discovered using 500 photographs

NASA’s Hubble Telescope discovers closest black hole to Earth –changing our understanding of space

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Webb confirms: Big, bright galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang

One of the things that the James Webb Space Telescope was designed to do was look at some of the earliest objects in the Universe. And...

Webb confirms: Big, bright galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang

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