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Artist’s concept of Eta Carinae’s Great Eruption in 1843. This star underwent a great eruption but not a full-blown supernova. Is it possible to catch a supernova before it happens?

View larger. | This is the Hubble Space Telescope’s new view of the quasar 3C 273, 2.5 billion light-years away. We can see various filaments and blobs, and the long

Artist’s depiction of the Webb Space Telescope scanning the asteroid belt in infrared, looking for the smallest asteroids. Now, Webb has found 138 of them. The MIT team used a

A visualization of starspots on the red giant star XX Trianguli. The size of the sun is shown on the left for comparison. Image via HUN-REN RCAES/ Zs. Kovári, MOME/

View larger. | Artist’s concept of AR Scorpii, a binary star system made up of a red dwarf and a white dwarf. A system like this might be the source

Lucy’s second slingshot of Earth. The Lucy spacecraft will perform its second Earth gravity assist on December 12, 2024. Video via NASA Goddard. Our planet Earth will give NASA’s Lucy

Artist’s concept of asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Most asteroids are rocky or metallic, and they don’t vent stuff into space. But 3200 Phaethon appears to be made of different materials from

?????1??????????????2024?12?8?22?34?35??????360fps????(?????)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/iHUq9EuXQg — ???? (@dfuji1) December 8, 2024 Check out this video from Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum. Fujii caught videos of what might

Did Venus ever have oceans? Was it ever habitable? Previous studies suggest the planet once was more like Earth, with vast stretches of water on its surface. But a new

This artist’s image depicts part of a model of Earth’s tree of life. When humans finally discover alien life, will they be able to recognize it? Astrobiologists are developing a