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Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

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For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, along with members from Poland and other countries, discovered a ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

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