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NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered water-ice clouds in the atmosphere of a distant ...

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NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...

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In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have uncovered evidence that lightning on Jupiter can be vastly more ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming ...

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