An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

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Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

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The report of possible biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b is exciting, but we are a long way from establishing beyond ...

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Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...