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Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...
The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...
The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...
Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...
All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.
A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...
"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did ...
We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...
The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...
Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
The trio is a rarity—and when all of its unusual traits are considered together, it is unique.