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World’s first full-scale planetary defense test against potential asteroid impacts

A giant asteroid's impact is considered the likely cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs almost 66 million years ago. While there is no...

A completely new type of magnetic wave discovered deep down

There are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below our feet.

Groundbreaking Discovery: First ever image of the Milky Way’s Supermassive black hole

The image is a long-anticipated look at the massive object that sits at the very centre of our galaxy.

Astronomers find 1701 new asteroid trails in Hubble images

Global Citizen Science Project Finds Over 1700 Asteroid Trails in Hubble Images

Hubble helps analyze the atmosphere of 25 hot Jupiters

Hubble observations used to answer key exoplanet questions

Surprising changes in Neptune’s temperatures captured

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), to track Neptune's atmospheric temperatures...

New benchmark: The most distant individual star ever seen

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years...

A new member of the milky way family revealed

Piece by piece, astronomers are fitting together the merger history of the Galaxy.

Mars Tree Stump: Is that a tree stump or a crater?

An impressive birds-eye view.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched

Webb's launch marks a significant moment

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