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In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

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"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

NASA has released new images showing the fascinating structure dubbed a 'pillar of creation'. The image captures an enormous cosmic tower which measures nearly 10 light-years tall in the Eagle Nebula ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, confirming a theory about the formation of our solar system.

Scientists have found strong signs of possible life on exoplanet K2-18b, a potential "Hycean world," suggesting new avenues in the search for alien life.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

There's significant questions about whether biosignature that the astronomers detected on the exoplanet is actually a sign of ...