By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

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The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

American private space company Blue Origin managed to simulate the gravity of the Moon for about two minutes during New Shepard flight ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

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