The inner part of a comet’s coma is normally not accessible from Earth. The close flyby of comet 46P/Wirtanen allowed astronomers to study it in de
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You've heard of hot Jupiters. You've heard of mini-Neptunes. You've heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep - planetary
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On 24 December 1968 - 50 years ago this Christmas eve - Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders became the first h
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Parts of DNA can form in space. For the first time, scientists have made 2-deoxyribose, the sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA, under cosmic
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We still don't know what dark matter is, but new research has brought us closer to figuring out where it might sit. According to astrophysicists from
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Our first glimpses into the physics that exist near the center of a black hole are being made possible using "loop quantum gravity"--a theory that us
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An adolescent star in the midst of a dramatic growth phase has been observed with the help of two NASA space telescopes. The youngster belongs to&nbs
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Researchers from RIKEN have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to measure the strength of magnetic fields
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Researchers have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system. These so-called super-Earths were formed at high tem
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Using the infrared satellite AKARI, a Japanese research team has detected the existence of water in the form of hydrated minerals in a number of aste
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