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An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

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A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

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The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. The solar ...

Astronomers using the NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what appears to be a ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be older than the Sun. Scientists are analysing its composition, origin, and rare ...

When scientists describe “Earth-like” planets, the phrase often brings to mind worlds scattered across the galaxy, quietly ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

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