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Could tiny stars a fraction the size of our solar system's Sun have habitable planets orbiting them? A new study says it's possible.
NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?
At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn't ruin astronomical observations by the world's newest sky-observing super-machine.
Here's the latest image from NASA of the nebula around pulsar B1509-58, seemingly showing a cosmic hand reaching out across the void, fingers extended across a starfield. Pulsar B1509-58, a 12-mile wide neutron star that spins like a top, is the star ...
WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet offers a unique opportunity to study planetary birth ...
Why is the night sky dark? This simple question, known as Olbers' paradox, has perplexed astronomers for centuries. In an infinite, eternal universe filled with stars, every line of sight should end on a star, bathing the night in constant light. --
Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world. The finding overturns long-held theories suggesting that tiny, low-mass stars lack the material needed to form or keep giant ...
Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during an X1.3-class flare, confirm long-standing theories ...
Irish astronomers were among those that made an unexpected discovery of a new planet, according to a new study.