With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

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The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...