Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending ...

Scientists later confirmed the rock was not earthly treasure at all, but a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, formed during the ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a ...

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...

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Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.

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Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer scrutiny ...

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Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to ...