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Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...
Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy under a new law the Republican governor signed this ...
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...
The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...