A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

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New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our ...

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Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Building on that legacy, Lowell Observatory played a key role in the world’s first Planetary Defense mission in 2022, DART ...

To fix the problem, former University of Sydney Ph.D. students Max Charles and Louis Desdoigts developed a neural network, a ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

An American startup has come up with a surprisingly simple tool to solve one of space’s most complex challenges.TransAstra, ...

The scene is burned into pop culture memory: a young Luke Skywalker, silhouetted against the vast desert, gazing wistfully as ...