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The dwarf planet Sedna will fly nearer the Sun in 2076. A nuclear rocket or a solar sail spacecraft could reach it within 7 ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

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Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.