Sharmila Kuthunur is an independent space journalist based in Bengaluru, India. Her work has also appeared in Scientific American, Science, Astronomy and Live Science, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston.
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With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.

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Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ago, scientists find.

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The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

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We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

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Jets from a distant galaxy could offer fresh clues to how galaxies and their black holes evolve over eons.

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Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

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Satellite images show destruction caused by huge, fast-moving fires raging this week in Southern California.

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The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

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This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

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2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.

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A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

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If all goes to plan, the sun should give NASA's Parker Solar Probe a hard time.

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Tune into a live webinar on Dec. 19 as several cultural and scientific icons will answer questions about mysteries of the universe and space travel from an Antarctica-bound luxury expedition vessel.

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The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, according to new research.

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India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program.

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On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will break its own records for speed and closest approach to the sun.

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Two giant asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's climate, according to new research.

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China debuted its new launch vehicle Long March-12, delivering two experimental satellites into orbit and marking the inaugural flight from the country's first commercial spaceport.

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Climate extremes seem to have exacerbated toxins in the elephants' water supply.

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2022 WJ1 was only the sixth asteroid to be detected prior to striking Earth, and the smallest space rock ever seen.
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