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Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with extreme heat and a carbon-rich atmosphere, leaving experts unsure how it even formed.

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

A new technique allows complex interactions in materials to be simulated using Monte Carlo simulations thousands of times ...

Something fundamental has shifted in India. We can sense it not only in the obvious places—parliament, television studios, election rallies—but in the slower, quieter zones of life : in ...