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two bright stars, one white and one red, seen ins pace in a cloud of dust. many other smaller, fainter stars can be seen in the background

A young star may soon disappear: Inside the great dimming of T Tauri

By Keith Cooper published

The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even disappear.

Stars
74 different orange ring shapes on fuzzy purple backgrounds, arranged in a grid

Trillions of comets discovered orbiting alien planet systems (image)

By Keith Cooper published

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

Comets
An illustration shows a supermassive black hole beginning to blast out a jet of matter at around 33% the speed of light (inset) Radio images of 1ES 1927+654 reveal emerging structures that appear to be jets of plasma erupting from both sides of the galaxy’s central black hole following a strong radio flare.

Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the speed of light.

Black Holes

What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025

By Tariq Malik, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

Reference
a blurry grey dot zooms across a background of blurry stars

Strange 'quasi-moon' of Earth gets named Cardea, after goddess of door hinges

By Monisha Ravisetti published

A quasi-moon of Earth has been given a name. It's Cardea, after the goddess of door hinges.

Solar System
An image of the Northern lights over Bloomington, Indiana

Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras

By Tereza Pultarova published

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space.

Earth
Artist's impression of a moon exploration scenario.

Finland becomes 53rd country to join the Artemis Accords for moon exploration

By Andrew Jones published

Finland just became the Artemis Accords' 53rd member nation, bolstering NASA's efforts to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration.

The moon
a starry night sky seen behind ears of corn

When you wish upon a star, is it already dead? An astronomer crunches the numbers

By Laura Nicole Driessen published

The stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think.

The Universe
A NASA graphic depicting a galaxy with a red half-circle superimposed over it to represent the mass of dark matter believed to be found there.

'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests

By Paul Sutter published

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests.

The Universe

3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."

Stars
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