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Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips 'tail' off Earth's magnetosphere
A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail.
We finally know where the moon's atmosphere comes from
"We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere."
Space photo of the week: A cosmic butterfly emerges from a star's slow death
A Hawaii telescope just captured a sun-like star's glowing gas layers as it expands. The resulting butterfly-shaped nebula is a sight to behold.
The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars
New research could solve the mystery of how the complex building blocks of life first formed.
Group of ancient stars spotted near the sun could rewrite the Milky Way's history
Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought.
These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery
Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates.
Auroras expected tonight and through the weekend as US braces from 'cannibal' solar eruption
A chain of solar outbursts, including a "cannibal" coronal mass ejection that slammed Earth on Tuesday, will bring lovely auroras to parts of the northern US and most of Canada this weekend. Here's where to look.
James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.
