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This illustration depicts material in a swirling disk actively falling into a supermassive black hole. A powerful jet of particles shoots away from the black hole, extending upwards and to the right.

Black Hole Jets Pack Surprising Punch in Early Universe

Illustration of Psyche craft en route to asteroid

NASA Psyche Spacecraft Switches to Backup Fuel System After Valve Malfunction

A bright star against a starry background

Mysterious Star Pulses Every 44 Minutes in Space First

Fifty-nine individual images went into the creation of this Perseverance rover selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Mars Dust Devil Photobombs NASA Rover’s Milestone Selfie

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior. A new study suggests coronae are the locations of several types of tectonic activity. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin

Venus’s Mysterious Circles Hint at a Lost Chapter of Earth’s History

This artist’s concept shows the Moon’s hot interior and volcanism about 2 to 3 billion years ago. It is thought that volcanic activity on the lunar near side (the side facing Earth) helped create a landscape dominated by vast plains called mare, which are formed by molten rock that cooled and solidified.

NASA Reveals Moon’s Hidden Heat Imbalance

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This artist’s concept depicts one of the probes speeding away. NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA Engineers Revive Voyager 1’s ‘Dead’ Thrusters as Data Archives Fuel New Discoveries

$This new image features one of the Milky Way’s cosmic “bones,” known as G359.13142-0.20005—or G359.13 for short—also nicknamed the Snake. X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory (in blue) and radio data from South Africa’s MeerKAT array (in gray) reveal a striking feature: a visible break in the otherwise continuous structure of G359.13. By combining these two datasets, researchers are uncovering clues about what may have caused this fracture.$