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In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

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What the Soviets Found on Venus reveals a hellish surface, reanalyzed Venera data, and why those probes still guide today’s ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

Discover the brightest planets in the December 2025 night sky, including Jupiter and Mercury, and know the best times to see ...

SEATTLE — November's episode of Sky Above features Keith Krumm to discuss what’s happening in the sky this month, including another supermoon, a meteor show and interstellar visitors. A new guest, ...

A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus' orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus co-orbital ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...