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The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.
Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
In 2017, astronomers made an unprecedented discovery: the first interstellar object ever confirmed to visit our solar ...
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...
Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...
There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...