The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

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If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

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It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...