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The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.