The Best of SPACE.com
10+ most popular SPACE.com articles, as voted by our community.
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Giant exoplanet found, imaged directly thanks to star-mapping data (photos)
The approach could lead to many more exoplanets being directly detected and imaged.
James Webb Space Telescope snaps amazing photo of alien asteroid belt
The debris structures around the star Fomalhaut are more complex than comparable features in our own solar system.
Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade: report
Arianespace's CEO says the expendable Ariane 6 will likely fly for more than a decade before being replaced.
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Breakthrough wormhole simulation may unite quantum physics and general relativity
The breakthrough could suggest a way to study 'quantum gravity,' the missing link between quantum physics and Einstein's general relativity in the lab.
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New Horizons Pluto probe notches 3 more discoveries in outer solar system
New findings keep on coming from the mission's July 2015 Pluto flyby.
Strange unprecedented vortex spotted around the sun's north pole
Scientists have just spotted a strange circular filament wobbling around the sun's pole that has them really excited.
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'Rebooting' the moon: NASA's Artemis program aims for lunar sustainability
Innovative technologies are needed to forge the first long-term presence on the moon.
Why is gravity so weak? The answer may lie in the very nature of space-time
The solution as to why gravity is so weak may come from taking a closer look at the Higgs boson.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Discovered How to Measure Stellar Distances
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a Harvard "computer" — one of several women in the early 1900s who studied photographic plates for fundamental properties of stars. Leavitt is best known for discovering…
Fuel leak delays NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission launch
The next launch attempt of Artemis 1 could occur as soon as Monday (Sept. 5).
James Webb Space Telescope suffers 1st noticeable micrometeoroid impact just months into flight
NASA says we can still expect pristine images on July 12.
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