The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

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Hubble's latest observations show Uranus' moons behaving in ways scientists didn't expect, revealing surprising clues about ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

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 ...

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An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

AlCl has been detected in the atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, which are in the late stages of stellar ...

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...