The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

Her name, they told us, was Peggy. She had been taken into the compound three months before without a hair on her body. Her ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.