Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

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The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, ...

Journey through the cosmos with 6 incredibly beautiful galaxy images, all captured by NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

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Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy is about 32 million light-years from Earth.

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The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

An overview of the unique characteristics of the four prominent telescopes Hubble, James Webb, Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, which observe the universe from different perspectives. The article also ...