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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible through telescopes were, in fact, other galaxies in their own right. The scale of the cosmos had expanded dramatically virtually ...

James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space

Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space Telescope may have shown where much of that carbon originates. The discovery is thanks to shells of carbon dust expanding outward from a duo of massive stars.

Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago

The intense brightening and dimming of this quasar was observed by NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray) X-ray space telescope. NuSTAR's observations were then matched up with data about the same feeding supermassive black hole from NASA's ...

Are James Webb Space Telescope images really that colorful?

JWST is an infrared telescope, meaning it sees the universe in wavelengths of light that are longer than that of red light, which has the longest wavelength we can detect with our eyes. How are ...

Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16). Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Venus and Saturn take a sunset stroll tonight. Here's how to see it

Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky tonight during a celestial event known as a conjunction. To see Venus and Saturn, look to the southwest immediately as the sun sets. Venus will be bright an unmistakable, ...

Roar of New Glenn's Engines Silences Skeptics of Bezos' Blue Origin

On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos' space company sent its first rocket into orbit. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New ...

Extinct Human Species Lived in a Brutal Desert, Study Finds

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. Share full article.

Why Is Every Human Being Riddled With Genetic Errors?

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Smithsonian

You began when egg and sperm met, and the DNA from your biological parents teamed up. Your first cell began copying its newly melded genome and dividing to build a body. And almost immediately, genetic ...

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See 6 Planets Align on January 21

WIRED

On January 21, six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will be visible simultaneously in the sky, and their alignment will be easily visible from almost all parts of the globe.