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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

Three powerful space telescopes, Euclid, Roman, and the James Webb Space Telescope, could team up to detect black holes as ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

Twice a month, on clear nights, the University of New Hampshire Observatory in Durham opens up to the public for a viewing ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

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Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

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What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

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In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...