SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...
Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...
Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...
More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...
Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists, because it ...
What do planets like Venus and Neptune have to do with love or spirituality? According to astrology, they affect a lot of the ...
Helldivers 2 finds itself in the news again with the surprise release of new missions and Super Earth takes the fight to the ...
Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...
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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
Movies like Arrival and Interstellar marry the grounded, fact-based traits of hard science with the emotional, ...
What is notable about the interstellar object 3l/ATLAS, which will soon approach Earth? A number of unusual behavioural changes in 3I/ATLAS have led to speculation that an artificial probe is ...