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The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. FBI says it's ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a blindingly fast flash of radio waves that appeared to be coming from somewhere ...
The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.
A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...
The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...
A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...