These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

Unlike other imaging techniques, it offers direct visualization, allowing clinicians to detect even the subtlest abnormalities. More recently, rigid and versatile lens-based ear endoscopy has become ...

To shoot the night skies, you'll need a camera designed for astrophotography. Tim Coleman and the AP team pick some good ones ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

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Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Perseverance has a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes for samples gathered from places suitable for hosting life billions of ...