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Scientists have discovered a Super-Earth that is four times the mass of our planet and takes just 10.8 days to complete a whole year.

After releasing the deepest image of the universe on July 11, NASA revealed four more groundbreaking finds from the James Webb Space Telescope, including two nebulae, a quintet of galaxies, and water signatures from an exoplanet.

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webbs First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

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Researchers have their eye on a massive sunspot measuring more than 6,100 miles wide, which could prompt a radio blackout-inducing solar flare.

The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas morning and is now about 1 million miles from Earth -- ready to send back its first color images.

NASA said a rocket of unknown national origin that crashed into the moon earlier this year produced a double crater on the surface, an unexpected feat. The agencys Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, wh

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

The huge sunspot has the potential to send a solar flare our way. Whether it will or not remains to be seen.

First identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), this system has two Earth-sized planets around a small M-dwarf star, named HD 260655.

Did China stumble with strange signals coming from exoplanets?

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried

China's Earth 2.0 Telescope would look for Earth-size exoplanets with similar orbits around sun-like stars, in hopes of finding an Earth

Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.

The worst of this one will miss us, but it is a hint of what's to come.

The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.

NASA's planned effort to communicate with extraterrestrials may provoke an alien invasion, Oxford scientists have warned

Satellites and power systems could be affected by the huge mass of plasma that's on course to collide with our planet

The mega-comet first spotted in 2021 is the largest ever seen according to observations by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA might launch the new Solar System Space Telescope (SSST).