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Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

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Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

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Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.