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Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter

When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027, it will use a space-bending effect first predicted…

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James Webb telescope ups the odds that ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken its final look at the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4, at least…

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Go inside the development of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope with new ‘Cosmic Dawn’ documentary

For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” documentary…

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James Webb telescope discovers ‘a new kind of climate’ on Pluto, unlike anything else in our solar system

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have taken a fresh look at the distant edges of our solar…

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Pluto’s hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the…

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers smallest ‘failed stars’ ever seen

Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown dwarfs, also known as “failed stars,” including the two smallest examples…

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‘Uranus is weird.’ Big moons of tilted ice giant hide a magnetic mystery, Hubble telescope reveals

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus’ largest moons are gathering dust — literally. Uranus, the seventh…

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‘People thought this couldn’t be done’: Scientists observe light of ‘cosmic dawn’ with a telescope on Earth for the first time ever

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to peer back into the cosmic dawn — an era more…

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See a young star potentially giving birth to a giant planet in new image from Very Large Telescope

Researchers have captured a mesmerizing image of what they believe to be a giant planet forming in the orbit of…

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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope takes best look at ‘Sombrero Galaxy’ in 244 years

The James Webb Space Telescope’s new image of the Sombrero galaxy, captured using its Near-Infrared Camera. (Image credit: NASA, ESA,…

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