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A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b.
The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...
PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...
On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...
The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...
Guwahati: Principal investigator of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) onboard Aditya-L1, Prof. Durgesh Tripathi ...
"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...
Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.
University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...
“Unless we see E.T. waving at us, it’s not going to be a smoking gun,” said Christopher Glein, a planetary scientist at the ...