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View larger. | Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter took this stunning ultraviolet image of Venus on December 23, 2016. And China is preparing to launch a mission to Venus in the early

https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/05/HD-219134.mp4 Artist’s concept of the HD 219134 system. Sound waves propagating through the stellar interior – the nearby star’s music as it were – were used to measure its age

Scientists have made the first-ever identification of a supermassive black hole roaming the darkness between stars instead of in a galaxy’s core. This artist’s concept shows the glowing remnants of

Artist’s concept of a magnetar undergoing a powerful flare. Scientists now believe that flares from magnetars – highly magnetized, compact, dead stars – can create heavy elements, such as gold

Explore spiral galaxy Messier 83 through Webb’s infrared eyes. The James Webb Space Telescope has found new evidence of a supermassive black hole in the heart of this galaxy. Video

What is Vesta It’s not an asteroid nor a planet. And a new study says it doesn’t have a core, either. This view of Vesta is from the Dawn mission.

An enormous cloud of molecular gas called Eos clings to the edge of a gigantic structure – the Local Bubble – that our sun resides within. Only 300 light-years away,

The Gaia space telescope has spotted a family of stars that is getting ready to disperse wildly across the galaxy like kids tearing out on the playground at the start

Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet close to its red dwarf star. Now, astronomers have discovered a super-Earth orbiting farther out from its star than Saturn. This suggests that super-Earth

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck (bottom center) in this contrast-enhanced view captured on February 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity