An unusual supernova studied by multiple telescopes, including the SOAR telescope and other telescopes at the National Science …
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Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a new world, a planet roughly twice the …
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An international team of astronomers, including from the University of Cambridge, discovered the massive object when trawling through …
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Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of …
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Giant Planets Around Young Star Raise Questions About How Planets Form
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesResearchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first …
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The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a “super-Earth” with a mass of at least …
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University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in …
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In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as ‘Oumuamua — the first known interstellar …
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Evidence of Outburst Flooding Indicates Plentiful Water on Early Mars
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe presence of water on early Mars has been theorized for centuries. Early telescopes revealed ice caps, and …
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Some 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, …