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Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Scientists say CWISE J1249 could be a low-mass star or a brown dwarf, an object that is not quite a star or a gas giant planet like Jupiter, but something else in between. Credit: NASA illustration ...

Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like ...

What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a ...

NASA's Curiosity rover was launched to Mars in 2011 with the goal of discovering whether the planet had the right conditions to support microscopic life. To help this search, the rover is equipped ...

Yet a trickle of reflected photons, captured by two big telescopes on opposite hemispheres, has given scientists their first good look at the most remote sizable world spotted in more than a decade.

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