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Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond ...

You wouldn’t expect the cosmos to come to a small town in rural Manitoba. The cosmos, frankly, has better places to be.

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A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

The planet is part of a planetary system about 40 light-years away from Earth called TRAPPIST-1, which five Belgian astronomers discovered in 2016 and named after their favorite beer.

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Oct. 6: The full harvest supermoon is at 11:47 p.m. Eastern Time and rises at sunset in the East. This is the first full supermoon of 2025 and the largest and brightest full moon of 2025. Should be a ...