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A new optical telescope concept could harness our Sun’s own gravity to make revolutionary observations of far-flung celestial objects.

Logic dictates that 3I/ATLAS, the controversial interstellar comet now passing through our solar system, is completely natural.

AI-enabled mapping will pave the way for extremely precise lunar surveys. The tech could help pinpoint both new science targets and resources for future Moon bases.

A burst of evolutionary speciation which took place some 540 million years ago was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun.

First look images from the Rubin Observatory reveal a massive stellar stream around the Messier 61 grand spiral galaxy, located in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.

Our planet Jupiter enabled and then organized the architecture of our inner solar system, including the formation of planet Earth, planetary scientists now say.

Rocky extrasolar planets span the galaxy.  But astrophysicists have made a tentative link between their chemical compositions and their galactic birthplaces.

Our desire to voyage into space may simply be a natural part of our long evolutionary journey, new book asserts.

A new Japanese-led space observatory reveals unexpected thick winds around an x-ray binary star system halfway across the Milky Way.

Abnormal proteins found in brain disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease are a surprisingly likely key to the first life here on Earth, says a molecular neurobiologist.