SPACE is a deadly place – and we’re all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t be crashing into us after all, but that’s not ...
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How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...
The data was gathered from the deepest-ever survey of NGC1333, a star-forming cluster located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. The newly discovered planets are among the lightest ever detected and ...
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Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...