Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a fifth the mass of our Sun. This challenges long ...
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Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars over 13 billion years ago offers a new lens into the ...
Astronomers have uncovered a colossal cosmic event unfolding in deep space, as two massive galaxy clusters - which collided around a billion years ago - are now on course to crash into each other again.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These observations revealed sand-like silicate clouds in one planet s atmosphere and an unexpected ...
Experts say thick slabs of cloud in YSES-1 system could consist of mineral dust and iron, which would rain down ...
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here's why, in 2025, that seems ...
A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using the powerful Very Large Telescope in Chile, they captured dazzling near-infrared images of a spiral-armed disk, matching ...
"We're starting to see the universe in ways we never could before," said astronomer Kamlesh Rajpurohit.
Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers' telescopes ...
IC 578, captured in a stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, appears serene at first glance, but this galaxy, located 92 million ...