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Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...
The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...
The Aurora Borealis stunned the nation last year, with dazzling light displays being visible as far south as Dorset, Essex, Cambridgeshire ...
Solar flares can reshape exoplanet atmospheres within days, affecting temperature, winds, and potential habitability.
Astronomers are tracking a humongous hole in the Sun's atmosphere that is expected to face Earth directly. The hole is slowly transitioning towards the planet as the Sun prepares for big ejections ...
Starry Poles: Launched from Cape Canaveral five years ago, the Solar Orbiter has steadily delivered stunning insights about our star. Its latest achievement – a first-ever glimpse of the Sun's ...
Because Earth, like all the planets in our solar system ... Gather images of the sun from closer than any spacecraft before it and study the hot star's polar regions to understand things like the ...