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The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, Andromeda, has never looked as stunning as it does in a new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope.

The image of the galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), was created with assistance from a range…

A pair of objects 20,000 light‑years away has just broken the energy ceiling for light inside our galaxy. These twin bodies (a massive star and a black hole), known as a microquasar, are generating cosmic rays containing photons with more…

What just happened? The James Webb space telescope has captured what is likely to be the first exoplanet discovered using the advanced observatory. An international team of astronomers uncovered the planet candidate in the debris field…

Evolution is commonly thought of as a process that creates new and more complicated traits. But this is not always the case.

On the youngest islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild tomato plants have adapted to their environment by producing…

It sounds like the premise of a sci-fi novel, but it’s an actual piece of history. October 31, 2000, marked the last day in human history when everyone on Earth was physically on the planet. That’s right—until this date, every person on…

The unpredictable Bootid meteor shower peaks tonight, though stargazers in the U.S. will need luck on their side to catch one of the ancient shooting stars streaking through the post-sunset sky.

Each June, Earth passes through the trail of debris…

Though the last volcanic eruption in Puy-de-Dôme dates back to ancient times, there could be new occurrences in the future within the Central Massif. It is indeed true that a layer of lava lies beneath the region and is expected to eventually…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again unveiled astonishing celestial phenomena, most notably the discovery of free-floating pairs of Jupiter-like objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster. These objects, known as JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass…