Sun-like star may have swallowed an exoplanet with help from a mysterious companion: 'You are what you eat, right?'
"That's what makes this field so exciting. You really are solving a mystery." ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
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Astrophotographer captures a cosmic lagoon glowing 5,200 light-years from Earth (photo)
The Lagoon Nebula is best spotted in the months surrounding August in the Northern Hemisphere. ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
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These Mars valleys are hiding 30 dust devils | Space photo of the day for June 18, 2026
Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien landscape. ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
Read moreSpaceX launches intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office
The Falcon 9 rocket launched an undisclosed number of satellites, which are believed to be Starshield satellites, a government variant of Starlink. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base h...
Spaceflight Now | June 18, 2026
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'It's quite a bit more than we expected': Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space. ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
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Astronomers solve the mystery of black holes' delayed cosmic 'burps'
A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving astronomers a chemical blueprint to predict them early. ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
Read moreHubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters ...
NASA | June 18, 2026
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NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on Mars. Could you do the same?
Percy has now traveled more than 26.2 miles on the Red Planet! Could you? ...
Latest from Space.com | June 18, 2026
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One of these twin stars has likely been snacking on exoplanets
Astronomers have discovered chemical differences between binary stars that indicate one has devoured at least one planet. ...
Latest from Space.com | June 17, 2026
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