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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.
New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was…
Voyager's signal now reaches Earth as a whisper measured in fractions of a billionth of…
Astronomers have found a super-Earth just 25 light-years away
Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is sealed beneath a shell of ice, but the ocean hidden…
The most common type of planet discovered in the Milky Way may be a world that does not…
Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth, but the energy inside a…
Scientists examining samples returned from asteroid Bennu found ribose and glucose…
A red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years from Earth, hosts seven…
Venus turns so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year, and it…
An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten…
