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From dust to planets: Parabolic flight reveal a turbule...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire pl...

Clearest evidence yet that giant planets spin faster th...

For decades, astronomers have struggled to differentiate giant planets from brow...

Using fiber-optic cables to detect moonquakes

Two recent studies suggest that fiber-optic cables laid directly on the moon's s...

Dim delights in the Cancer constellation

Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautifu...

Colliding dust and the sparks of creation: Carbon-coate...

Two microscopic grains collide and produce a tiny spark. This phenomenon may hav...

Astronomers search for 'exotrojans' hiding in extreme p...

Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. Bu...

How young galaxies grew magnetic fields faster than exp...

How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-...

How common are fireballs streaking across the sky?

The Earth is under assault. Space rocks are constantly hurtling toward us, slamm...

NASA's Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the...

How two dim stars came together to shine brightly

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars"...

DESI maps C-19, an extremely metal-poor Milky Way stell...

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an interna...

The best places to look for alien life: Scientists iden...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpoin...

The discovery of a buried delta on Mars could boost the...

There's more evidence that water once flowed on Mars with the discovery of an an...

The moon's going to get crowded. We should protect our ...

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made...

Gravitational waves leave imprints on light emitted by ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by violent cosmic events, ...

JUICE is planning to do science on Jupiter's 'minor' mo...

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is ...