About sixty-six comet groups have been tentatively identified, of which there are fifteen that can be regarded as ...
Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
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Mars spots an interstellar comet, Neanderthal noses lose a cold-weather story, debris tests crew safety
“This was a very challenging observation for the instrument. The comet is around 10 000 to 100 000 times fainter than our usual target.”This kind of description by Nick Thomas of a camera being pushed ...
Discover why astronomy and cosmology are the universe's mapmakers. Discover how scientists trace galaxies, the cosmic web, and the large-scale architecture of our entire existence in three dimensions ...
Astronomers are testing a quieter way of searching for moons beyond the solar system, using careful measurements of motion rather than changes in ligh.
A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any moon in our Solar System.
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