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If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.
Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...
Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...
Astronomers have detected a rare gas giant exoplanet in the outer reaches of the Milky Way, marking only the third such ...
Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 kilometers from Australian plains to mountain caves to escape the summer heat. The stars may help them get there.
Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...
Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...
Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...
Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how ...
The Trappist-1 system, just 40 light years from Earth, contains 7 rocky planets - all roughly the size of Earth. Packed tightly within the space between Mercury and the Sun, three of these planets lie ...
Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours. This type of observation is very rare and could shed new light on how binary ...