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A 15-year-old boy, from Seaford, East Sussex, captured an awesome picture of Saturn using a personal telescope in his back garden that many experienced astrophysicists would be proud of. Marcus Reed …
A mysterious X-ray source discovered in Chandra Deep Field-South data, giving the deepest X-ray image ever made, became 1,000 times brighter over a few hours before fading dramatically in about a day…
"We still don't really understand the process by which a star explodes as a supernova," says Ofer Yaron, with the Weizmann Institute's Particle Physics and Astrophysics team, "…
Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two "cousin" exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter"…
A new model on how stars are formed has added weight to the hypothesis that most – if not all – stars are born in a litter with at least one sibling. Our own star at the center of the Solar System is…
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie f…
Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. And the latest fast r…
"... astronomers have an unyielding mystery on their hands, something they have observed and pondered for three years, a point of light deep in the northern sky that appears to be like …
Astronomers have identified a weird pair of orbiting asteroids, called 288P, as the first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet. Astronomers recently spotted two space rocks behav…
