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While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...
Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...
Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...
In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...
Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...