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Is there an invisible web of dark matter surrounding us? Its influence can be observed across the cosmos, but the web remains unseen… for the most part. This Picture of the Week shows the clearest ima

James Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Image of Cosmic Web Filament

Astronomers have produced the sharpest image to date of a 3-million-light-year filament connecting galaxies from nearly 12 billion years ago.

May 16, 2026

The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in G

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James Webb Telescope Detects Relics of First Stars in Distant Galaxy

Astronomers have identified an ultra-faint galaxy, LAP1-B, containing stars that date back to approximately 800 million years after the Big Bang.

May 16, 2026

True color image of Mars taken by the OSIRIS instrument on the ESA Rosetta spacecraft during its February 2007 flyby of the planet. The image was generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green, and bl

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Asteroid Trajectory Data Reveals Potential Shortcut to Mars

A new study suggests that analyzing asteroid trajectories could reduce the round-trip travel time to Mars to as little as 153 days.

May 10, 2026

This artist’s illustration portrays two galaxies that existed in the first billion years of the universe. The larger galaxy at left hosts a brilliant quasar at its center, whose glow is powered by hot

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JWST Observations Reveal Frequent Extreme Outflows in Early Quasars

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope shows powerful galaxy-scale winds in early quasars may be responsible for shutting down star formation in the early universe.

May 8, 2026

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