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First Atmosphere Found on Rocky World in Habitable Zone 48 Light Years Away
A rocky planet 48 light years from Earth has become the first world of its kind known to hold an atmosphere wh
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The Milky Way once flipped upside down after a galactic crash
The Milky Way once flipped upside down. Astronomers have found that our galaxy’s disc inverted about 10 billio
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NASA Plans to Map Alien Continents Using Light Waves
NASA is working on a way to map continents on planets orbiting other stars. The technique, called optical very
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Space mirrors for solar power alarm astronomers in Chile
A startup wants to launch 50,000 satellites into orbit, each carrying a giant mirror, to reflect sunlight back
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Sweet Discovery: True Sugar Molecules Found in Deep Space
Astronomers have found a real sugar molecule floating in the cold void between stars. For the first time, a fo
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ESA Experts Break Down the Science of a Total Solar Eclipse
The European Space Agency held a live online media briefing on July 15, 2026, where experts explained the scie
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Webb Telescope Spies Hidden Planet in Beta Pictoris System
A famous star system 63 light years away just gave up a secret that telescopes had missed for decades. NASA's
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Asteroid 2016 WW3 Revealed as a Dark Comet With a Hidden Tail
A space rock that astronomers once dismissed as a plain, inert asteroid has been hiding a secret. The object,
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Hubble Captures a Crimson Nebula 6,000 Light Years Away
A fresh image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a crimson cloud of gas and newborn stars floating 6,000 li
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Roman Telescope to Catch Black Holes Mid Meal Across the Cosmos
The universe is about to get a lot more violent, and NASA’s next big space telescope will have front row seats
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First True Sugar Molecule Found in Deep Space
Astronomers have spotted a real sugar molecule floating in a distant star forming region. It is the most compl
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Hubble Finds First Missing Black Hole in Omega Centauri
The Hubble Space Telescope has found something that was supposed to be there all along: a black hole in the mi
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Hubble Spots a Star Cluster So Dense It Glows Like a City
A single image from the Hubble Space Telescope contains thousands of stars packed so tightly they look like a
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Webb Reveals Millions of Hidden Stars in Centaurus A
The James Webb Space Telescope has done what no telescope could before: it peeled back the thick dust at the h
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Webb Telescope Reveals a Galaxy Warped by a Cosmic Crash
A galaxy 13 million light years away looks like it was crumpled by a giant cosmic hand. NASA's James Webb Spac
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Astronomers capture first ever birth of a magnetar
A strange chirp in the light of an exploding star has given astronomers the first direct evidence of a magneta
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Euclid Telescope Finds Universe's Oldest Quasars
Europe's Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars ever observed, shining from a time when the uni
