Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.
A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the “echo” of this gamma-ray burst.
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These worlds are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog.
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NASA has used advanced imaging techniques to peer inside samples of asteroid Bennu, discovering extensive networks of cracks running throughout the rock particles.
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“Cosmic archaeologists” have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.
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The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.
A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.
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The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans.
The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy known as the Hubble tension.
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