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Astronomy in 2025: This Year’s Most Captivating Discoveries in Space and the Cosmos

Here is a look at just a few of the biggest developments in astronomy that The Debrief has been tracking in 2025. Read More

Scientists achieve 'world first' by heating plasma to multimillion degree temperatures: 'Helping to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos'

A research team in Germany recently achieved what it called "a world first in fusion research," exciting the clean energy community, Interesting Engineering reported. The research team is part of the ... Read More

World’s largest telescope rises in Chile, set to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos

There is magic in gazing at the stars—an ancient human pursuit that inspires us to wonder and ask questions. Now place yourself in the sparsely populated Chilean desert, under one of the planet's best ... Read More

Get Lost in This Dazzling New Map of the Cosmos

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to survey vaster swaths of the cosmos in only a handful of wavelengths. SPHEREx ... Read More

A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus is due to crash back to Earth this week

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Though most ... Read More

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike ... Read More