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Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...
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Astronomers have officially announced the name of the largest structure in the known universe. It was reported earlier this ...
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With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.
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Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...
A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.
Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.