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Dennis Mammana Stargazers We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to comprehend sizes and ...
Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...
In the predawn hours of July 1, 2025, a faint streak of light caught the attention of astronomers peering through data from a ...
The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...
Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...
Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...
NASA has since confirmed the object is an interstellar comet called 3I/ATLAS – and it is only the third interstellar object ...
For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...
A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...
HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...