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New James Webb Space Telescope image shows 45,000 galaxies in unprecedented detail
The James Webb Space Telescope turned its sights on a special region in space, where it has reveale…
Jessica Orwig
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Habitable earth-sized planet discovered but its Sun doesn't set for over two weeks
The Earth isn’t going to last forever. Scientists continue to debate over what poses the greater …
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A new ‘dark’ planet on NASA’s radar might hold the key to what makes or breaks a planet
But, it has one critical flaw — no atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere supports life — but not…
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NASA shared some interstellar fireworks to bring 2020 to an end. The Orion Nebula looks like a rainbow canvas peppered with dots of light.
NASA shares an "image of the day," every day. Its final image for 2020 depicts the Orion Nebula, mo…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA's powerful new space telescope will be named after Nancy Grace Roman — the agency's first female executive, known as the 'mother of Hubble'
Nancy Grace Roman was told she couldn't do science. She became NASA's first woman executive and mad…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is retiring after 16 years of incredible infrared imaging. It revealed nebulas and galaxies as we'd never seen before.
But as the telescope has floated in space, its systems have aged and battery life has diminished. T…
Holly Secon
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Astronomers may have just found the most distant astronomical object ever observed
Astronomers might have discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed. Named HD1, it…
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10 Mind-Bending Photos From The Spitzer Telescope
As the fourth Great Observatory to enter into space, Spitzer has studied comets and asteroids, coun…
Christina Sterbenz
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way — and it's giving birth to new stars
A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals that we live next to the largest gas cloud in the galaxy. …
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Bubbles filled with thousands of stars found in the Milky Way
The size of these bubbles is decided by the wind and radiation coming from the young and massi…
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A second mysterious object from interstellar space may be about to fly through our solar system
"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Olivier …
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Mysterious space objects like 'Oumuamua will visit our solar system again. Scientists may intercept the next one with a robotic probe.
In November 2017, Trilling and others published a study suggesting that current telescopes may see …
Dave Mosher
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There's more to this beautiful space image than meets the eye
In order to study objects in different wavelengths, astronomers convert the non-visible parts of th…
Jessica Orwig
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Amateur astronomers found these mysterious yellow balls in deep space
Astronomers are now calculating the distribution of the yellow balls in the star-forming stretch of…
Kelly Dickerson
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Our Galactic Neighbor Is Up To 40,000 Light-Years Closer To Us Than We Thought
The researchers will also be able to use this technique to accurately map other areas of our galaxy…
Robert Ferris
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Strange Baby Star Flashes Mysteriously
The stars would be pulling material into their cores. Because of the way their gravity and orbits i…
Jennifer Welsh
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How exoplanet hunters find alien worlds hundreds of light-years away and figure out if they have water
Using data from space telescopes, researchers recently found two possible water-rich exoplanets. It…