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A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...
But what is a solar eclipse? Think of it as a supercharged new moon, one that occurs when the moon passes between the sun the ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...