The nearly full Moon will pass Mars on the evening of Dec. 17 in a brilliant conjunction.

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In stark contrast with a paper released last year that determined the exoplanet was likely to be bare and barren, new data ...

Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet ...

Since 2017, Imperio, 37, a Duke Eye Center Ophthalmic Photographer, has found a creative outlet in astrophotography, the ...

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric ...