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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the ...
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured striking new images of stars forming inside the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, ...
EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...
Emma Marcucci works for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, as Executive Director of the Smithsonian STARS program, ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very difficult to observe ...