The star system has been nicknamed the “Moth” because of its wing-like disk, visible in infrared observations, of leftover dust from the star’s formation that stretches outside the astrosphere. These ...

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Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

A recent study which was published in arXiv has found a hug celestial body in space has been reversing its spin and essentially traveling backwards in time.

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

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Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

Gravitational lenses could allow us to find black hole binaries long before we're able to measure their gravitational waves.

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...