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Record-Breaking Marshmallow Planet – It’s A Cold, Peculiar World On A Very Slanted Orbit

Scientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...
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Astronomers Stumble Upon Mysterious Object in the Outer Solar System

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...
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'Most pristine' star ever seen discovered at the Milky Way's edge — and could be a direct descendant of the universe's first stars

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
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Peculiar Glow In The Milky Way Might Be Dark Matter Signature

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges view on chemistry before life emerged

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

The hidden planet beyond Pluto: Is Planet Y real

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

JWST detects phosphine gas in the atmosphere of brown dwarf star, stunning astronomers

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...