Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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Scientists are closer to predicting the timing and intensity of solar flares
Study shows that deep learning predicts TEC variations in the ionosphere, minimizing failures in satellite signals during ...
Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
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Cosmic Forces Shape Size, Location of Sub-Neptunes
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...
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The Man Who Helped Predict Black Holes, Both Real and Hypothetical
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
And the real icing on the cake is that ... when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. Breaking space news, the latest updates ...
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New planet named Enaiposha is unlike anything in our solar system
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...