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At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...
Astronomers are urging Earthlings to keep their eyes peeled for a once-in-a-lifetime sight that hasn't been observed for 80 ...
Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...
This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the locations of various elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), and iron ...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made an exciting discovery: frozen water, also known as crystalline ...
NASA engineers have successfully completed testing on one half of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a key step in making sure this future observatory will perform as expected once it reaches ...
Researchers say crystalline water ice has been clearly found. It lies inside a dusty debris ring around a star 155 ...
At around £419 / US$399 / AU$699, it’s the most affordable smart telescope yet, undercutting the similarly sized Dwarflab ...
Astronomers have long suspected the presence of frozen water, ever since in 2008 data from Nasa's retired Spitzer Space ...
Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every ...
The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from ...