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The sun hasn't looked like this since 2022, what's going on?
By Tereza Pultarova last updated
The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar cycle might be heading toward its quieter phase.

World's largest radio telescope array pierces heart of our Milky Way: 'This is just the beginning'
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Antarctica's 'gravity hole' reveals the evolution of Earth's deep interior
By Samantha Mathewson published
A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

NASA space telescope gets 1st clear X-ray image of sun-like star blowing a bubble
By Samantha Mathewson published
The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system's early history.

Two stars carve egg-shaped nebula | Space photo of the day Feb. 24, 2026
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

Starlight warped in the fabric of spacetime could help us find hidden black holes dancing together
By Keith Cooper published
Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive black holes in close orbit.

A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's the plan
By Keith Cooper published
If launched in 2035, a spacecraft performing such a maneuver could fly by 3I/ATLAS by 2085.

What's the point of a space station around the moon?
By Berna Akcali Gur published
Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?

The Milky Way may be hiding a big secret at its heart: an extremely magnetic dead star
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron star-powered pulsar.

These 70 dusty galaxies at the edge of our universe could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that challenge our understanding of cosmic evolution.
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