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This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

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A decade-long cosmic mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have traced strange, repeating radio pulses to an unusual ...

As the Trump administration continues to slash federal spending, rumored cuts to science funding has left the future of Big ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

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Scientists observing the Centaurus galaxy cluster made an exciting breakthrough by discovering powerful streams of hot gas ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...