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The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy.

Astronomers are overcoming atmospheric distortion with laser guide star technology. By creating artificial stars, they ...

Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...

A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitab ...

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size ...