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Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light years into deep space
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.

Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery
By Keith Cooper Published
A distant black hole star is providing strong evidence that these objects lie at the hearts of the mysterious little red dots found shortly after the Big Bang by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Green comet caught soaring over Namibia | Space photo of the day for Aug. 12, 2026
By Chelsea Gohd Published
A shot so spectacular it will leave other astrophotographers green with envy.

Scientists create largest 2D map of the universe with 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion cosmic objects
By Samantha Mathewson Published
"It's part of the fabric of astronomy research now."

Scientists find 2 million active black holes, exploding stars and more, nearly doubling our view of the high-energy universe
By Samantha Mathewson Published
Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources.

1-billion-year-old Mars meteorite found in Algeria is like nothing we've seen from the Red Planet
By Elizabeth Howell Published
Scientists found a Martian meteorite on Earth that is finally filling in a nearly 2-billion-year-old geology-history gap on the Red Planet.

Behold the majestic mane of the Lion Nebula | Space photo of the day for Aug. 11, 2026
By Chelsea Gohd Published
The Lion Nebula glows gloriously in this new snapshot from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Andromeda galaxy may be getting bullied by a smaller galactic neighbor, scientists find
By Rahul Rao Published
Andromeda has slowed its star-forming rate over the last 40 million years. Scientists think they finally know why.
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