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Astronomers using the NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what appears to be a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound ...

In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches its new orbital rocket for the first time with two NASA satellites that will fly to Mars to study the red planet’s atmosphere. Photo: Joe Skipper/Reuters Elon Musk and ...

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