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Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo)
By Samantha Mathewson published
The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science?
By Stefanie Waldek published
Not much, unless we're talking about spacecraft.

Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)
By Mike Wall published
Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
By John Loeffler published
On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, whether you call it a planet or not.

James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, finding it endlessly blowing bubbles.

Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction'
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by liquid iron rains.

Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy
By Andrey Feldman published
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars
By Robert Lea published
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James Webb Space Telescope has now learned how this galaxy cluster does it.
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