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Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...