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Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.

On Republic Day, scientists from Mumbai’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) observed the flare using MACE, the world’s ...

An X-ray flash coming from an unusual binary star system was recently spotted with help from the unique "Lobster eyes" on the Einstein Probe.

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

India's MACE telescope detects a massive gamma-ray flare from a distant galaxy, unlocking a cosmic secret and offering fresh insight into the early universe, 8 billion light-years away.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and ...

Since early January, Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that has a small chance of colliding ...