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Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...
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James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...
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What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...
In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers have observed the birth of baby planets in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, ...
Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.
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Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...