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Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

China and Brazil have begun building a joint laboratory for space technologies, Chinese state-owned defence electronics firm ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed ultra-fast winds emerging from a black hole in a distant galaxy, shedding new light on one of the Universe’s most mysterious phenomena. In a galaxy far, ...

China and Brazil have begun building a joint laboratory for space technologies, Chinese state-owned defence electronics firm ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

Thanks to sufficient advance warning, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study the earliest supernova by far. A gamma-ray burst had announced it.

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Thanks to the space telescope, a team of astronomers detected with unprecedented precision two helium tails escaping from the exoplanet WASP-121b. This artistic representation of exoplanet WASP-121 b ...