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For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

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Astronomers discover more than 100 hidden black holes in a star cluster, revealing surprising movements in ancient galactic ...

Look West from Promthep Cape on a clear Phuket night (on the rare nights that might be possible!) and the Milky Way stretches ...

A galactic pileup 94 million light-years away is giving astronomers a detailed look at how cosmic collisions shape the universe.

In a new study published today in Nature , we report the discovery of a new long-period transient - and, for the first time, one that also emits ...

Even within our own solar system, distances are enormous. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn explains that driving a car ...

The universe's vastness challenges human comprehension. It contains trillions of galaxies and countless stars. Pluto's ...

Now gather a few hundred billion stars and star clusters together, and you’ve got an immense structure known as a galaxy. The galaxy in which our star — the sun — resides is the Milky Way, so named ...

Even in our own solar system, distances seem infinite. Think of driving continuously at highway speed to Pluto. It would take ...