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Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet

Scientists say a newly discovered green comet likely has broken apart and won't be visible to the naked eye

Dark sky proponents mull the rights of nature to battle light pollution. Here's how it would work

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Its

Astronomers have created a 3D representation of asteroid 2024 YR4.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists don't know why it happened. NASA JPL's SPHEREx mission will seek answers to the mystery of cosmic 'inflation.'

Sophie Pinkham on the race between American and Soviet scientists, during the Cold War, to contact extraterrestrials.

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins.

None are aliens. All of them are interesting anyway.

If advanced civilizations are out there, here's the breakthrough strategy that could bring them to light.

With billions of stars in the Milky Way, some nomenclature standardization is necessary

The zoomed-in view was made possible by the European Southern Observatory's powerful Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), located in Chile's Atacama Desert. Researchers noted that this was...

These projects are just a sample of the many on display in NASA's exhibit during the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking,

From here on Earth, our views of the Universe are impressive and expansive, but are also fundamentally limited. We can build observatories as large as we like — even on the highest, driest…

It took over a year for citizen scientists to decode the signal.

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A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting

A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, makes its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. The comet's next appearance may be in 80,000...

Cosmologists might have to go back to the drawing board.