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W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...
This flick isn’t a masterpiece, not even a vulgar one, but it’s cheeky and entertaining enough in its giddy hyper-violence, thanks almost entirely to the star turn of Josh Hartnett, ...
The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known ...
As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...
Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...
In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its ...
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of ...
And according to their new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the algorithm has already flagged 44 star systems that could host planets with conditions favorable to life. “This is a ...
TODAY is Earth Day. On this day every year, we reflect on the state of our planet, and all too often, we find it worse than the year before. From the ongoing genocide and ecocide waged on the ...
Astronomers have found a 'Star Wars' planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...