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The Euclid Space Telescope, aimed at unraveling the mysteries of the Universe, has been launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft from Florida's Cape Canaveral.

Prof Dr Stephanie Wehner, Director of the European Quantum Internet Alliance, explains how quantum network technology and a quantum internet could revolutionise communication and connectivity.

An international team of astrophysicists studying a gamma-ray burst (GRB) may have discovered a new way to destroy stars

EPFL researchers reveal their ground-breaking technique for determining the mass of a galaxy hosting a quasar through the use of a powerful gravitational lensing method This method offers precision three times greater than any other existing method. Ultimately, the technique will allow the team from EPFL to study the evolution...

In a groundbreaking analysis utilizing the latest telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Florida have revealed that one-third of all common planets in our galaxy may be classed as 'hospitable planets'.

Leicester has developed a ‘space city’ cluster for the UK space sector collaborating on space observation and research.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to look at a rocky exoplanet known as GJ 486 b, researchers find signs of water vapour – hinting at an atmosphere.

JWST researchers have been able to locate a tiny distant galaxy which originated around 500 million years after the Big Bang – in the universe’s youth.

Artificial Intelligence experts have been invited to embark on the Ariel Data Challenge 2023 and look for exoplanets.

Now that Spain has joined the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, researchers in Spain will have access to the initiative's data.

Professor Gun-Sik Park, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University explores the function of fingerprints from a lens of understanding the mechanism of our human ability to grip.

Gun-Sik Park received Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 1989 He has worked at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA as an on-site contractor from Omega-P Inc. until he moved to Seoul National University of Korea in 1995 where he has...

For the first time, a raging dust storm has been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope on the exoplanet known as VHS 1256b, which is outside our Solar System.

Moon dust could be an option to block the sun’s radiation and slow global warming – researchers are looking to intercept a fraction of sunlight before it reaches Earth.

Samples from the 162173 Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft could help us understand the chemical composition of the solar system.

F Barry Dunning, a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Rice University, explores the atomic states within Rydberg atoms and their possibilities in atomic engineering.

An opportunity to further understand the early universe and the lonely dwarf galaxy has been provided by the near-infrared camera of the James Webb Space Telescope.

The stunningly high-resolution telescope has captured yet more pictures of our universe in unprecedented detail and beauty with its newest release showing us the ‘Pillars of Creation’.

Scientists have discovered two ‘super Earth’ type planets about 100 light-years from our Earth where 1 year is 8.5 days.

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