New research suggests that Venus may never have possessed liquid water oceans. That would mean "Earth's evil twin" was always ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

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A planet has been found orbiting a three-million-year-old star. Better still, it transits across the star’s face from our perspective, offering opportunities to see the starlight passing through ...

The Police Reform Commission has recommended discontinuing the practice of checking political affiliations during police verification, especially for job recruitments. Safar Raj Hossain, the ...

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the perturbations in the cosmic microwave background, and really allowed us to put an age on the universe. More recently, very interesting, MIDEX and I was actually involved in this one when I was at ...

Webb was designed to answer some of the biggest questions in the Universe, such as how and when did stars and galaxies form? Until it was launched in 2021, no telescope was able to see that deeply ...

Compared with the background stars, it will look like a “flat,” bluish-gray star. You may have better luck overnight and into the early-morning hours, say around about 1 A.M. local time.

The alien world is several times the mass of Jupiter and the closest exoplanet to ever be directly ... It seems astronomers have no shortage of ideas about where to look. Maybe one day, new ...