Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb reveals why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be an alien 'Trojan Horse' by design rather than a natural ...

The boundary of a solar system is not defined by planets, but by gravity. Beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt lies the Oort ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound ...

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Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

With CyberCube estimating that the cost of the AWS outage could run between $38 and $581 million, the economic and operational toll of that outage can’t be overstated. That’s especially true for ...

Microsoft is a dominant and growing force in the cloud business. Its Azure cloud platform continues to drive company-wide results. However, Microsoft shares have become incredibly expensive. Microsoft ...

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