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Less than 20 light-years from Earth, astronomers have flagged a new target that could reshape how we search for life bey...

In a burst of light that traveled some 10 billion years to reach Earth, astronomers have observed the most powerful and ...

New analysis of stellar motions captured by the Gaia space observatory reveals a large, outward-propagating ripple in th...

The early Universe may have allowed black holes to grow in ways that no longer happen today. New simulations challenge t...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports encouraging signs: the Antarctic ozone hole in 2024 was significantl...

The Pentagon is reportedly preparing a multibillion-dollar contract with SpaceX to build satellites for a sweeping missi...

Astronomers have identified three Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a tight pair of stars in the TOI-2267 system — a rare c...

For the first time, astronomers have used a cutting-edge optical device called a photonic lantern on a ground-based tele...

Astronomers have captured a striking new view of a red, bat-shaped cloud of gas and dust — a stellar nursery where young...

New infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope have peeled back layers of dust and gas around NGC 6537, the so-...

Astronomers have stitched together the most sensitive, wide-area low-frequency radio image of our galaxy to date, reveal...

When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope began sending back extraordinary infrared images, a subtle electronic quirk threa...

New computer models from Rice University suggest Jupiter's rapid early growth reshaped the young solar system, carving r...

Scientists have taken a significant step toward answering one of cosmology's most profound riddles: why the early univer...

Astronomers have caught the first clear sign of a multi-temperature coronal mass ejection from a young, Sun-like star, o...

Archival astronomy and eyewitness reports are illuminating an odd footprint of the Atomic Age: transient lights recorded...

Strange, snake-like gullies that appear on Martian dunes each spring have long intrigued planetary scientists. New labor...

Coronal rain—cool, dense blobs of plasma falling along the Sun’s magnetic loops—has puzzled solar physicists for decades...

For the first time, astronomers have detected complex organic molecules frozen in ice outside the Milky Way. Using the J...

A new exoplanet candidate has emerged as one of the most promising nearby worlds for habitability studies. At just 18 li...