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Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...
The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...
The White House’s spending plans would further the space agency’s evolution toward becoming an incubator for private industry ...
"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...
Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.
A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," that may be acting as a black hole "delivery system." Credit: NASA/CXC/A. H ...
An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...
The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...
Their incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through almost 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years. That means looking back through 98 per cent of cosmic ...
AlCl has been detected in the atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, which are in the late stages of stellar ...