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A pair of giant planets circling a star more than 1,100 light-years from Earth looks almost too bloated to be real. Each world is about the size of Jupiter. Yet both are far lighter than expected, ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided ...

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

I have loved the universe since I was young.I love looking at the night sky,thinking about the stars,and going to the planetarium.However,there was a moment that changed me from“I love the universe” ...

My favorite planet is Earth. I can’t help it. It’s my cozy home. It’s also a brilliant blue with bits of brown and swirly white. I like that I can look at a photo of Earth and see familiar things – ...