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How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a 'boom' in deep space, estimated to be at least 600 million light years away from ...

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What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated by a supernova explosion approximately 350 years ago. The material glows in ...

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic molecules.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Ho Seong Lee) has successfully developed a high-quality compound semiconductor material for ultra-sensitive SWIR sensors.

The SPHEREx space telescope, launching in February 2025, will map the cosmos in infrared light, helping scientists understand ...