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Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight’s Swan Song

Joanna Thompson

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Space Exploration

NASA Hails Starliner Launch Success despite Thruster Glitch

SPACE.com and Josh Dinner

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow

Joanna Thompson

Our Sun Could Someday Reveal the Surfaces of Alien Earths

In the far future, we could reveal detailed views of distant worlds by turning our home star into a gravitational lens

Allison Gasparini

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight’s Swan Song

Joanna Thompson

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

NASA Hails Starliner Launch Success despite Thruster Glitch

SPACE.com and Josh Dinner

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow

Joanna Thompson

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

Will NASA Save Europe’s Beleaguered Mars Rover?

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Extraterrestrial Life

Extraterrestrial Life

Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA-Protein Hybrid Gets New Support

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

Boeing’s Starliner Launch Will Bring New Cargo and Science to the Space Station

Josh Dinner and SPACE.com

Inequality

Mammals’ Perseverance, Fast Radio Bursts and Health Justice

Laura Helmuth

Black Holes

How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole

Seth Fletcher, Tulika Bose and Jeffery DelViscio

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The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Heart Has Been Revealed

The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime...

Particle Physics

God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek

The physics Nobelist and author has not exactly found religion—but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking

The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

Seth Fletcher, Jason Drakeford, Tulika Bose and Jeffery DelViscio

How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

Seth Fletcher, Tulika Bose and Jeffery DelViscio

New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’

THESAN—the largest, most detailed computer model of the universe’s first billion years yet made—is helping set expectations for observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope...

Charles Q. Choi

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web

Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure

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The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11

The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11

Celebrating the past and future of humans on the moon

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The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

May 12, 2022

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Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

May 25, 2021

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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video

February 22, 2021

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The Future of Mars Exploration

December 2, 2020

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To Understand Gravity, Toss a Hard Drive into a Black Hole

November 4, 2020

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