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The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of water ice in a planetary system beyond our own for the first ...

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Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

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Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA app on a mobile device. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...