Japan has quietly closed the book on Akatsuki, a spacecraft that spent more time around Venus than anyone first expected. The ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

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The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory.

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.

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For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

Mars today is a frozen, dusty desert. But if you look deep inside Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars and in ...