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"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." ...

Astronomers have hoped for the existence of Planet Nine for years. Things were looking promising, but this discovery might ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

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"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

It becomes a red giant, which swallows its companion and then sheds the gas, leaving behind a white dwarf and a star nearby that can feed on it. However, since many stars live in triple-star systems, ...

So physicists have been on the hunt for any sign of difference between matter and antimatter, known in the field as a ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

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