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Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

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On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

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