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NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

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Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result ...

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Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

China search for Earth 2.0 leads a bold 2026–2030 space plan to probe the early universe, our Sun, and Earth-like exoplanets.

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The bizarre alien world is even believed to have grown a second atmosphere ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System, this time of a unique pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. A Wolf-Rayet is a massive, ...