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Books also played a crucial role in establishing Venice as a cultural capital in Europe. Following Gutenberg's invention of ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, called NGC ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects ...

Earlier in the week, Russia updated its nuclear doctrine to expand the conditions under which it might employ such weapons ...

Brexit Britain is to build its own £40million satellite in the UK to rival the European Union's Galileo system. Juno will capture daytime images of the Earth's surface in what backers of the ...

The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed due to a combination of decayed zinc in the telescope’s cable sockets and previous damage from Hurricane Maria, according to a report ...

The James Webb Space Telescope resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo around Vega, at 23 ... [+] billion miles out. There is no evidence of giant planets around Vega, one of the brightest ...

The December 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico came at the end of a 39-month sequence that began with Hurricane Maria in 2017, according to a new report from the National ...

NASA telescopes have captured two ghastly galaxies that look like a creepy pair of staring “blood-soaked” eyes floating in space. The spiral galaxies, which are located 114 million light-years ...

The pair’s macabre colors represent a combination of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible and ultraviolet light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Look for potential ...