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Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled ...

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After years of speculation, scientists finally believe they have figured out the crystal conundrum thanks to new imaging from ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic 2015 flyby of Pluto. Learn how this space probe, utilizing a gravitational ...

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