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The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...
Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...
Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...
Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...
With the launch of thousands of satellites through projects like Starlink and OneWeb, astronomers are raising urgent concerns ...
A tourism business has lodged an appeal against a decision to approve a nearly billion-dollar energy storage project outside ...
The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...
The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...
Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.
The rush for faster and more widely available internet is making it harder to understand the cosmos, according to scientists.
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds ...