The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded,…
The planetary system around star HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System. A research…
The Sun is the brightest object in the sky and has been studied for hundreds…
A Finnish research group has found strong evidence for the presence of exotic quark matter…
The 49ers who panned for gold during California’s Gold Rush didn’t really know where they…
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The extent to which solar activity (and thus the number of sunspots and the solar…
An international team of astronomers has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming…
The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant…
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered…