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Astronomers have taken the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy and found it to be on the…
The old adage that we are stardust is literally true. But is there a link between a star’s given chemical…
Astronomers have discovered a star speeding at about 1.3 million miles per hour across our Milky Way galaxy. The star…
Astronomy is hard. Telescopes are fiddly, light pollution ruins much of what they can see anyway, and that’s before we…
NASA’s Juno orbiter has returned its latest batch of images of giant Jupiter, which are as impressive as ever. Despite…
Scientists have found evidence for the so-called Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis that a comet exploded in Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years…
New research suggests that Earth’s inner core has been slowing down for 14 years, which could mean the length of…
A dim star in the summer night sky is now on the cusp of exploding and could become visible to…
In the mid-2030s, the Hubble Space Telescope will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere—unless NASA agrees to a daring plan to…
Japan just switched on the world’s highest telescope. This week marks the “first light” for the University of Tokyo Atacama…