Part of the challenge when it comes to researching the existence of alien life is knowing where to look. Until relatively recently, the focus for Nasa’s search for life was Mars, but that began to ...

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Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward ...

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While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant, ancient objects. The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Though few have heard of the ancient queen, nearly everyone has heard of her grandson, Alexander the Great. "This is the only appropriate location that we have determined may be the ancient city ...