Detecting this object’s unusual behavior “felt like finding a needle in a haystack.”
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Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries...
The surprisingly large world has a massive orbit—about 838 times Earth’s distance from the Sun.
Astronomers caught a brutal act of cosmic violence for the first time—one galaxy piercing another with deadly...
Peculiarities in the orbits of two brown dwarfs indicate the presence of something even more extraordinary.
The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what...
A study of thousands of space rocks may explain why a common type in space is so...
The icy planet is spinning more slowly than we thought.
The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next...
On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part...
