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Star slowly consuming brown dwarf in orbit that would fit inside the Sun
In an impossibly tight cosmic embrace, a dying brown dwarf feeds a hungry star in slow motion, a process so gradual it will outlast galaxies.
Amateur astronomers map asteroid shapes by timing starlight with stopwatches
Giant planet's star transits will vanish for centuries in less than seven years
Hubble steers without thrusters using spinning wheels and Earth's magnetic field
Methone’s smooth surface may reflect slow movement of porous icy material
AI scans Hubble archive, discovers over 800 previously unknown objects in two days
A four-kilometre mountain on dwarf planet Ceres built from frozen salty brine
Jupiter-size planet spotted forming millions of years too early
Scientists descend to Atlantic floor to find 200,000 barrels of dumped nuclear waste
A river in Ohio was so thick with oil and industrial waste that it caught fire at least…
Hubble detects star stream stripped from distant galaxy's cluster
