"If this initiative is focused on astronomical observation, it should be noted that, according to current regulations, private entities are not permitted to enter into international agreements on this ...

Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

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A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until ...

A tech-averse writer rethinks the meaning of connection in the National Radio Quiet Zone, where Wi-Fi and cell service is ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...