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Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of conventional astronomy theory, and is making experts reconsider conventional ...
Get ready to feel small: The sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. Here are more colossal facts about our star.
The universe is vast, and while our solar system is the center of our everyday lives, it is just a tiny part of the cosmic ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...
NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...
New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.
As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...