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After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop last spring, and its "first light" images ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...