When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

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Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out. The cause of the star’s strange behavior may have been a cosmic catastrophe that’s ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient impact that formed Earth's moon.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Before Herschel discovered Uranus, other astronomers had ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

Finding‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ planets that are outside our solar system, called exoplanets, has changed the way we see the cosmos and our place in it. These faraway planets are extremely hard to find because they ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets may hold oceans, rocky ground, and even atmospheres rich in oxygen or ...

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