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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

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This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

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