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Another voice fronting the BBC's coverage of Glastonbury this year will be presenter, DJ and host Huw Stephens, who is best ...

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During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk through any telescope. On July 4, the far brighter planet Venus will pass ...

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.