Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet todayheadline
Artist’s impression of the planet K2-18b and its host starESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Astronomers claim to have seen the strongest evidence ...
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How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers todayheadline
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower as visible in Sri Lanka in 2024Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/ Getty Images The Lyrids and Eta Aquarids ...
Read moreDetailsLittle red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star' todayheadline
Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of supermassive ...
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Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop todayheadline
A sea of galaxies photographed by the Euclid space telescopeESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi ...
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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre todayheadline
A map of the sky assembled using data from the Gaia space telescope, with the centre of the Milky Way ...
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NASA set to launch SPHEREx space telescope to scan entire sky todayheadline
Artist’s impression of the SPHEREx space telescopeNASA/JPL-Caltech The latest addition to NASA’s fleet of space telescopes will launch this weekend ...
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Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found todayheadline
Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 bNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere ...
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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe todayheadline
Artist’s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universeScience Photo Library/Alamy Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the ...
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As the night sky grows crowded, astronomers face a growing problem
For more than five years, astronomers have sounded alarms about the effect satellite megaconstellations would have on their observations. The ...
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Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star todayheadline
Images of the two peculiar icy objects captured by the ALMA radio telescopeTakashi Shimonishi/Niigata University Two strange, icy objects in ...
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