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Not all planets are lucky enough to orbit a star. Some are cast adrift into the cold, dark depths of space completely alone. These mysterious objects are known as rogue planets, and they challenge ...
ASKAP J0107–2347, located around 1.5 billion light-years away, is also remarkable because it features two sets of radio lobes ...
Though the Star Wars sequel trilogy was flawed in many ways, one thing it did do right was make the gravity of its situation ...
Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.
Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...
Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...
A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...
Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...
The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly ...
There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...
Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.
The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.