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Artist's representation of the HD110067-system from above

‘Shocked and delighted’: Astronomers find six planets orbiting in resonance

Blue-green Uranus may not look like much through a telescope, but you can see its small disk at magnifications of 100x and more. Even this close-up look from the Voyager 2 spacecraft fails to reveal much detail. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System, Space Exploration

The many mysteries NASA can solve on a mission to Uranus

Human Spaceflight

The Kármán Line: Where space begins

Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom. Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in distant galaxies. Credit: Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern, CIERA + IT-RCDS

Galaxies, Science

JWST uncovers a surprising amount of nickel in adolescent galaxies

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Science

NGC 7727’s cosmic merger foreshadows our own future

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

The El Gordo galaxy cluster moves faster than you might think

The second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen (UNCOVER z-13 and UNCOVER z-12). The galaxies are located in Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744), show here as near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated to visible-light colors. Cluster image: NASA, UNCOVER (Bezanson et al., DIO: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.04026) Insets: NASA, UNCOVER (Wang et al., 2023) Composition: Dani Zemba/Penn State

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

JWST uncovers some of the most distant galaxies yet seen

An artistic impression of WASP-107b and its parent star. Illustration: LUCA School of Arts, Belgium/ Klaas Verpoest (visuals), Johan Van Looveren (typography). Science: Achrène Dyrek (CEA and Université Paris Cité, France), Michiel Min (SRON, the Netherlands), Leen Decin (KU Leuven, Belgium) / European MIRI EXO GTO team / ESA / NASA

Exoplanets, Science

WASP-107b, a weird exoplanet where it rains sand

A visual representation of the tilted accretion disk model, the black hole's vertical spin axis, and the precessional jet directions.

Exotic Objects, Science

Study reveals M87 has a spinning black hole

James H. Newman (right) and Jerry L. Ross (lower left) work on the recently-connected Russian-built FGB Module (Zarya) and the United States-built Unity Module in 1998. The photograph was taken out the window of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. Credit: NASA.

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

The International Space Station, a cosmic collaboration, turns 25

Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada and Nick Risinger

A moon helps to uncover strange solar system body Eris

Four massive volcanoes make up the Tharsis Bulge on Mars. The largest of the four, Olympus Mons, is at bottom right. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Justin Cowart

Science, Solar System

Olympus Mons: Mars’ mega volcano