Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare

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Illustration of what the Milky Way Galaxy may look like to a distant observer.

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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday

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A cluster of sunspots is seen highlighted by an arrow and a circle on a picture of the sun.
A cluster of sunspots, 15 times the size of the Earth, seen on November 23, 2023.

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Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket is ‘ready to rumble’ following full dress rehearsal

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James Webb Telescope captures colorful, glittering image of the chaotic center of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing never-before-seen details

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this photo of the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia)

A supermassive black hole is actually losing energy instead of gobbling it all up, new research shows

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The first image of a black hole shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

All the times SpaceX's Starship has exploded into a giant fireball

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Three previous explosions of Starship prototypes.

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Mars is about to disappear for 2 weeks. Here's why.

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The Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft captured this high-definition image of Mars.

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China takes on Elon Musk's Starlink with hundreds of low-orbit satellites

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A Long March-2C carrier rocket carrying a new-generation ocean color monitoring satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China Nov. 16, 2023. The satellite has successfully entered the planned orbit.
A Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

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NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres

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An artist's concept shows the variety of rocky, Earth-like planets that might exist across the universe.

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Photos show how SpaceX's Starship evolved from a trash-can-shaped prototype to the most powerful rocket ever built

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Side-by-side images show a trach-can0shaped prototype of Starship flying in the air, next to a picture of the latest Starship prototype being stacked on top of its booster.
Side-by-side images show two iterations of Starship, the Starhopper on the right and the Starship megarocket on the left.

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