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The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Webb is finding galaxies that look like they've…

On Venus, where the surface reaches 465 degrees Celsius and the air is sulphuric acid…

Titan may have volcanoes, but they would erupt something stranger than fire

Somewhere in the Milky Way tonight, drifting through the darkness between the stars…

In June 2025, on a Chilean mountaintop, scientists switched on the largest digital…

Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the…

Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone…

Scientists think at least two of Uranus's moons

At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers…

NASA's Webb telescope wasn't looking for a new planet around Beta Pictoris
