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Did the James Webb telescope really discover aliens? The truth about K2-18b. A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific community. Here’s the truth about what the James Webb Space Telescope saw.
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'White streak' appears over US as China dumps experimental fuel in space A recent launch of China's Zhuque-2E rocket triggered a giant white streak of light to appear above at least seven U.S. states after deploying six satellites into low-Earth orbit. The light show, which was visible in at least seven states, was the result of a "fuel dump," experts say.
An image of the Large Magellanic Cloud with blue, purple, and pink hues
Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover captured this image of a strange rock on Aug. 5, 2025. 

NASA's Perseverance rover spies mysterious 'helmet' on Mars

By Daisy Dobrijevic Partner Content Created With Space. published

A medieval-looking "helmet" rock spotted by NASA's Perseverance rover adds to Mars' gallery of odd shapes.

The folded layers of eastern Candor Chasma on Mars.

Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets — Space photo of the week

By Jamie Carter published

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.

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An illustration of a black hole represented by a sphere with swirls of purple and brown light around it representing its accretion disk as it sits in the darkness of space

X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole'

By Samantha Mathewson Partner Content Created With Space. published

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope has detected unexpected X-ray polarization from the "heartbeat black hole," formally known as IGR J17091-3624.

Scientists may have found a powerful new space object: 'It doesn't fit comfortably into any known category'

By Keith Cooper Partner Content Created With Space. published

Nicknamed 'Punctum,' this puzzling phenomenon is highly energetic, but is only seen in millimeter-wavelength light and cannot be explained by any known object.

Saturn moon Enceladus in front of planet Saturn, rings and other moons.

How many moons are in the solar system?

By Harry Baker last updated

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered?

Astronomy
An illustration of the ultrabright "‘RBFLOAT"' radio burst flaring over Canada's CHIME radio telescope.

James Webb telescope pinpoints brightest FRB ever detected

By Brandon Specktor published

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected in Earth's skies.

Astronomy
An illustration of a massive asteroid shattering in the early universe

Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may be long lost siblings, JWST hints

By Harry Baker published

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".

Space
Sunlight streams through a bough of orange autumn leaves

Autumn equinox 2025: When does fall begin?

By Sarah Wild last updated

REFERENCE Equinoxes occur twice a year, with night and day being almost the exact same length all across the world. The next equinox is the September fall equinox, beginning on Sept. 22, 2025 in North America.

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A large solar prominence (bottom right) bursts from the sun while a plasma tornado (top right) rages nearby

Solar tornado rages on the sun as a giant plasma plume erupts

By Patrick Pester published

There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image.

The Sun
An artist's rendition of the spacecraft Chrysalis

'Why would you even want to go?': Readers react to the hypothetical 400-year voyage to Alpha Centauri

By Elise Poore published

Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.

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