“This discovery provides a crucial insight into how planets form even around massive, eccentric objects.”
Terzan 5 is a globular cluster with some unusual properties that have led a team of astronomers to suspect that it is more than meets the eye.
The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary averting a cosmological crisis, according to new research.
As NASA’s Artemis program hits its stride, there’s an urgent need to guard against artistic misrepresentations of the moon, experts say.
The Orion A region has never looked as colorful and vibrant.
Scientists have discovered that dying stars don’t go down without a fight, with red giants spitting out blobs of plasma and receiving a corresponding “kick.”
Scientists have drawn up a research blueprint for assessing the viability of warming the Red Planet, outlining what it might take to make Mars a place in space where Earth life can thrive.
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New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated gamma-ray emission known as the Galactic Center Excess radiating from the heart of the Milky Way.
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A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.
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An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.