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MIT scientists say that dark energy could be the missing factor that explains some of the most perplexing phenomena in the ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

Eight of the most fascinating discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope so far. In this slot machine episode we play ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

This week, we examine the recent pager explosions in the Middle East, which have reignited concerns about further escalation ...

Astronomers find a way to measure temperature changes in a star with greater-than-ever precision, a breakthrough that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole starving its galaxy of gas, halting star formation in the early universe.

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The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...