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A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed "Cloud-9." Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a "relic" or remnant of ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

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