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The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the ...
Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...
"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...
New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their ...
Mysterious red dots may be a peculiar cosmic hybrid between a star and a black hole. By all rights, they shouldn’t exist. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to the ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...
Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...
Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this effect to find dark objects in space.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their ...
Organisations like NASA and NOAA keep an eye on the sun to forecast potential sources of danger. If a solar flare or Coronal ...