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NASA has taken a surprising new look at a white dwarf star called EX Hydrae, revealing details that astronomers have never ...

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Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down the science of Jupiter's eternal storm, Saturn's iconic rings, and the frozen ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Technically, the sun is a G-type main-sequence star — specifically, a G2V star. The "V" indicates that it is a dwarf, Tony ...

There is so much to see in the night sky tonight, here's what you can look forward to. Look to the east roughly two hours before midnight tonight to see a bright waning gibbous moon, now ...