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The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...
However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...
Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...
After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...
Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...
A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...
When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...
The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...
Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...
Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...