A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

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Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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Update 5.5, dubbed “Worlds Part 2” is another overhaul of world systems, adding a new type of planet, terrain overhauls to existing worlds, and new adventures in which to explore all the new features.

If those components then rained down on early Earth via meteorite strikes, they could have helped seed the planet with the raw ingredients for life. “We were super excited to find this—I’ve ...

Astronomers have studied three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope. These galaxies, located near the spiral galaxy NGC 300, exist ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University ...

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The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...