For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

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Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is nearing the sun, sparking debate due to Harvard professor Avi Loeb's theory that it could be an alien spacecraft. While Loeb suggests its trajectory and timing near the ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

Halloween telescope image reveals bat-shaped stellar nursery where infant stars are born. The cosmic creature spans four full ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.