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The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...
Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...
The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...
These Moths in Australia Use the Milky Way as a GPS to Fly 1,000 Kilometers. ... The new study reveals that Bogong moths use stellar cues to chart their long-distance migration across southeastern ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth, ...