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James Webb Space Telescope catches 'impostor' galaxies red-handed

An image showing hundreds of galaxies in deep space. One of the images from JWST's Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), in which astronomers are discovering red galaxies with ...

Bizarre meteorite is 1st to show scars from pebble-shooting asteroid

A meteorite on Earth holds new evidence that asteroids do indeed mysteriously spit out pebbles, a new study finds. In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered a strange new phenomenon when the near-Earth asteroid it was exploring, Bennu, ...

Equatorial Mars is surprisingly dry, NASA's InSight lander finds

The InSight mission uncovered little or no sign of water or water ice in the nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) below the lander, a new study shows. The subsurface around the landing zone — an equatorial ...

3rd Chinese space station module arrives at spaceport ahead of October launch

China is gearing up to complete its Tiangong space station with a third module launch in less than 18 months. The Mengtian experiment module arrived at Wenchang spaceport in south China on Tuesday (Aug. 9) after being shipped in containers from the ...

Bright fireball over Madrid traced back to comet of origin

A particularly bright meteor seen in the skies of Earth on July 31 has been tracked back to a comet that created a field of debris when it began to disintegrate thousands of years ago. Advertisement. Skip advert. Scientists believe that the fragment ...

Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows

The result is faster melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which leads to greater sea-level rise. But it also affects atmospheric circulation in North America and elsewhere, with impacts on weather like extreme rainfall and heat waves, although some of the ...

Supergiant Betelgeuse had a never-before-seen massive eruption

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(CNN) The red supergiant Betelgeuse, a colossal star in the Orion constellation, experienced a massive stellar eruption -- the likes of which have never been seen before, according to astronomers. Betelgeuse ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will study countless planets. Here's your chance to name one.

To name an exoplanet and its star, entrants need to form a team that brings together some combination of students and teachers, astronomy enthusiasts, amateur astronomers and professional astronomers. Teams should choose a target system, ...

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Betelgeuse is recovering from blowing its top

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Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019. Betelgeuse lost a substantial part of its visible surface and ...

All Hooting Aside: Did a Vocal Evolution Give Rise to Language?

As you do, a cascade of motion begins, forcing air from your lungs through two muscles, which vibrate, sculpting sound waves that pass through your mouth and into the world. These muscles are called vocal cords, or vocal folds, and their vibrations form ...