Our sun and a host of “solar twins” may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.
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Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.
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A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the “invisible giant” at the heart of our galaxy.
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars.
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Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter’s moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.
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A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.
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The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.
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A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for China’s first crewed moon landing mission, which the nation wants to achieve by 2030.
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The catalog of gravitational waves “heard” by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.
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The ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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