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The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

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I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...