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The universe chose me' - The Afrobeats mega-star is in London for the Wireless festival while delivering a new album which cements his status as one of the most important artists on the planet.
Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more ...
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...
On the eve of the 249th anniversary of American independence, NASA on Tuesday showcased a patriotic image of Old Glory as seen from hundreds of millions of miles away.
This artist’s impression shows a planet (left) that has approached too close to a white dwarf (right) and been torn apart by tidal forces from the star. The white dwarf is in the center of a planetary ...
NASA's Mars rover has suffered "abuse" while it has been roaming the red planet, according to the space agency. The Curiosity Rover has been exploring Mars since 2012, sending back crucial ...
The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned ...
A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...
Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.
A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. Using Keck observations, a UC Berkeley team has determined that ...
Astronomers using the Keck II 10-m telescope have discovered evidence for an Earth-mass planet and a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf star.
The hunt is on for a second Earth, somewhere out there in the Milky Way galaxy, but a newly discovered world is not quite the thing. It comes in at around 1.9 times the mass of Earth, orbiting its ...