On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a stunning image of the Abell 209 galaxy cluster, located 2.8 billion ...

Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...

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NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

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