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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…
Marianne Guenot
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope breaks another record, discovering the smallest star-like object astronomers have ever seen
NASA's Webb telescope was able to spot an object, the smallest of its kind, from 1,000 light years …
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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Indian-origin robotics engineer to head NASA's new Moon to Mars office
Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NA…
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NASA found a stray, space-grown tomato that went missing for 8 months, clearing the astronaut they all thought ate it
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost the tomato after the harvest this spring. His colleagues had accuse…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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How would humans respond to the discovery of aliens? NASA enlisted dozens of religious scholars to find out.
Theologians at the NASA-funded program at the Center for Theological Inquiry researched how humans …
Erin Snodgrass
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe
Webb spotted the oldest black hole ever discovered, breaking its own record. But the black hole is …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA congratulates Indian scientists for discovering one of the farthest galaxies in the universe
The UVIT was the last of the satellite’s six payloads to come alive on 30 November 2015.…
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The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm
Scientists from top alien-hunting organizations SETI and METI don't think Harvard physicist, Avi Lo…
Adam Barnes
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Salt, water and the hunt for life — Here are the biggest discoveries about Mars in the last three months
Earth’s next door neighbour, Mars, is currently humanity’s best bet for settling down on another pl…
Prabhjote Gill
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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found the most distant black hole ever growing near the dawn of t…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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NASA cases Asteroid Bennu ahead of snatch and grab — finds six new secrets, including a possible void under the surface
Officially called the Touch-and-Go (TAG) maneuver, the spacecraft will land on the asteroid for …
Prabhjote Gill
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The United Arab Emirates has released its first Mars photo, taken by the Hope Probe. It comes as NASA's rover approaches its descent on the red planet.
The UAE Space Agency on Sunday published its first photograph of Mars during a mission that became …
Kevin Shalvey
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ISRO's Chandrayaan 1 spots rusting on the Moon — NASA scientists believe Earth's atmosphere could be the reason why
Another sign that the Moon’s poles are home to water has emerged from the Chandrayaan 1’s data. …
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NASA spacecraft captures unusual circles of sand dunes on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has captured unusual circles of sand dunes on t…
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NASA's James Webb telescope discovers the earliest strand of a mysterious 'cosmic web' that links galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 mil…
Marianne Guenot
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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope blows past Hubble again, revealing an iconic supernova in unprecedented detail
The supernova, which was first discovered in 1987, has a keyhole-like formation, full of clumpy gas…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Grace E…
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'Jekyll and Hyde' binary stars discovered by Indian-origin scientist
A binary star system just under 20,000 light-years from Earth is unlike the others. Armed with an a…
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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …