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HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

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Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

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Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...