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An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries – and decide when ...

Magnetar flares can create gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds, reshaping cosmic element formation theories.

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

In a remarkable feat of amateur astrophotography, Michele Hernandez Bayliss, a Vermont-based astronomer, has managed to ...

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

The ongoing search for an additional planet at the solar system's edge has identified a new candidate, potentially ...