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A fresh solar flare erupted from an active sunspot Friday — the strongest in days, and the spark behind this weekend’s brewing aurora show

By BeckhamLangford

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Astronomers just caught a planetary system built inside out — small rocky worlds circling beyond the giants, backwards from everything we thought we knew

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NASA’s Webb just found an early-universe galaxy cranking out dust at a pace that shouldn’t be possible so soon after the Big Bang

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Kilauea is inflating toward its next eruption — the USGS now expects lava fountains to return to its summit crater between Sunday and Wednesday

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A geomagnetic storm is set to build from Sunday through midweek — forecasters say the northern lights could slip into the northern U.S. after a fresh solar flare

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The first “temperate” Saturn just turned up 330 light-years away — a giant cool enough for mild weather, wrapped in thick clouds of methane

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NASA’s Webb just clocked an infant galaxy pumping out cosmic dust far faster than the early universe should allow — and no one can explain how

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A comet just dove toward the sun and vanished in a single puff of gas — solar telescopes caught its final seconds before it boiled away to nothing

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Astronomers just found a backwards solar system where rocky worlds orbit farther out than the gas giants — a layout planet science says shouldn’t exist

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The James Webb telescope just found a rare Saturn-size world with Earth-like temperatures and a sky full of methane — 330 light-years away

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A geomagnetic storm is building this Memorial Day weekend — forecasters say the northern lights could push into the northern U.S. from Sunday into midweek

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Astronomers just confirmed 118 new planets beyond our solar system in a single sweep — with 2,000 more strong candidates still waiting to be checked

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NASA’s Webb just caught a newborn galaxy blazing with ‘monster stars’ — giant suns that may explain how the first black holes were ever born

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Kilauea is inflating toward its next eruption — the USGS now expects lava fountains to return to Halemaʻumaʻu between Sunday and Tuesday

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Mexico’s Popocatépetl is throwing ash over the valley again as Guatemala’s Fuego erupts the same day — two of the Americas’ most active volcanoes firing at once

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A possibly habitable world just turned up around a calm red dwarf — a rare quiet star that might not blast its planet’s air away with constant flares

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The James Webb telescope just peered into the heart of a distant galaxy and watched a supermassive black hole devour gas faster than theory says it should

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A new meteor stream crossing Earth’s path traces straight back to a dying asteroid — the first time a rock’s slow breakup has been caught this way

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Astronomers tracing the universe’s most powerful cosmic rays just found a hidden pattern that could finally reveal where the mysterious particles are born

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The James Webb telescope just read the layered walls of a vast canyon near Mars’s equator — decoding a buried history of flowing water and volcanic fire

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