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Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The moon, designated S/2025 U1, is about six miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, which made it hard to spot by ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

NASA selects two Colorado companies to develop technology used on its next space telescope, which will search for life on ...

By adding the orbiting RadioAstron satellite that travels half the distance to the Moon, scientists effectively made the telescope size impossible and equipped it with a 100,000 times improved ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The moon, designated S/2025 U1, is ...