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Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...
Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet named TOI-1846 b. This planet is nearly twice the size of Earth. It may contain a lot ...
Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.
Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...
A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...
Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...
The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...