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'Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us
Astronomers have discovered a low-mass "sub-Earth" planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, Barnard's star, that has a year lasting just three Earth days.
The Milky Way's 2 biggest satellite galaxies are oddly lonely, study finds
The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found.
Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' surprisingly adheres to the laws of physics, scientists find
The artist's work demonstrates an innate understanding of Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence.
Find your way across countless young stars in this image of a faraway stellar nursery (image)
A new telescope image reveals in intricate detail a slice of a well-studied faraway stellar nursery.
Earth has caught a 'second moon,' scientists say
Scientists calculated that, on Sunday (Sept. 29), our planet should have captured the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very temporary "mini-moon."
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees streams of gas cross in distant galaxy cluster (image)
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope detected two new streams of gas trailing behind a galaxy within a cluster called Zwicky 8338, creating a "chaotic landscape."
Supermassive black hole jets mysteriously ignite nova explosions, Hubble Telescope finds
Hubble Space Telescope observations suggest supermassive black hole jets double the frequency of nova explosions. But how?
Did dark matter help black holes grow to monster sizes in the infant cosmos?
Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen by the James Webb Space Telescope?
