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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument provides a field of view 100 times greater than the Hubble ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...