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Astronomers find planet that seems too humongous to be orbiting its parent star!
A group of astronomers has identified a planet over 13 times the mass of Earth in orbit around an u…
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A second Earth-sized world orbiting a dwarf star discovered by scientists
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-s…
ANI
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'Failed stars' may have a cosmic speed limit to how fast they can spin — otherwise they'll break apart
Brown dwarfs, also called ‘almost stars’ or ‘failed stars’, can spin as fast as 300,000 kilometres …
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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First 'intact' planet found circling a dead star — this Jupiter-sized anomaly is in orbit rather than being pulled apart at the seams
This Jupiter-sized anomaly of a planet is part and parcel of a three-star system that lies 80 light…
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An exploding star nova is due to show up in our skies soon. Here's how to spot it.
Our neighborhood nova T Coronae Borealis is due to release a "hydrogen-bomb" worth of energy this y…
Marianne Guenot
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'Vampire' stars could be using galactic henchmen to help feed on their companions
Type-Be stars, nicknamed "vampire" stars, are believed to strip the mass of a surrounding star. Now…
Hannah Getahun
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Two new planets 8-times the size of Earth could support life — and they're right next-door
Finding a planet other than Earth to support human life is astronomy’s moonshot project. Two new ‘S…
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A small star blew up a bigger star's funeral by exploding — but still missing the bullseye
Stars have much longer life spans than humans. Our Sun, for instance, is 4.6 billion years old wi…
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A star set to explode in 2083 will be the brightest object in Earth's sky as it dies
Over the next few decades, the star will brighten rapidly. Around 2083, all of the mass from V Sagi…
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Two dead stars are dancing around each other proving Einstein's theory right
A star that’s 1.27 times the mass of the Sun is dragging the fabric of space and time with it
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a secret star Hubble missed, maybe solving the mystery of a dying star's multi-layered nebula
Webb's new image of the Ring Nebula spots details the Hubble Space Telescope missed, including arcs…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope breaks another record, discovering the smallest star-like object astronomers have ever seen
NASA's Webb telescope was able to spot an object, the smallest of its kind, from 1,000 light years …
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive
These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…
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A mysterious star from outside the Milky Way has somehow ended up near our galaxy's supermassive black hole
Star SO-6 is very close to Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But it's …
Marianne Guenot
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A newly discovered space object called 'Farfarout' is the most distant thing in our solar system
It takes Farfarout 1,000 years to orbit the sun. Distant objects like this could help astronomers i…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning star of 'Little Miss Sunshine,' dead at 89
Actor Alan Arkin died on Thursday at his home in Carlsbad, California, his sons said in a joint sta…
Rebecca Cohen
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Peter Dinklage says the new 'Snow White' live-action casting is hypocritically woke because of the dwarf characters
On Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast, the "Game of Thrones" star reflected on Disney's upcoming "Snow Whit…
Kim Renfro
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'Jackass' star Wee Man hits out at the 'interesting' decision to cast Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa in 'Wonka'
Jason Acuña, better known as Wee Man, also called on Disney to "re-do" the upcoming "Snow White" re…
Maria Noyen
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NASA's James Webb telescope captured the spectacular death throes of a star 2,600 light year away
The image shows a doughnut-shaped structure of glowing gas known as the Ring Nebula in unprecedente…