Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

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Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

Reading her expressions and gauging from the tone in her sentences, my brain generated reflexes of facial expressions that ...

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Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...