A planet orbiting seven suns sounds like pure science fiction — the kind of system that should collapse into chaos instantly.
New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...
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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...
Thermoelectric devices are promising for capturing and converting waste heat it into useful electricity. Conventional devices ...
The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...
On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...
Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...
Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...
More people participating in the citizen science project Globe At Night could help fill gaps in what astronomers know about ...
The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...
Stargazers looking ahead to February’s highlights should make some time to look up not only during the night, but also during the day. In addition to the first solar eclipse of the year and a "planet ...
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