A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...
We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't ...
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Older than the sun? Jaw-dropping secrets of 3I/ATLAS

Could a comet passing through the inner solar system be older than the Sun itself? That question sits at the center of the ...
Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...
While we’re busy faffing about with satnavs and getting lost if our phone battery dies, the rest of the animal […] ...
The Milky Way could be called “the Neutrino Way.” Its stars produce vast numbers of the subatomic particles. Now, scientists have calculated how many of them should be streaming down onto Earth from ...
They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...