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A long-suspected black hole may have finally come out of hiding. A monstrously massive black hole in a distant galaxy probably has a smaller companion that orbits it every 12…

A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC -- using observations from NASA's TESS telescope -- presents the detection of a system of two planets slightly larger than…

If you drop an object, it will fall. It's a motion that we’ve all seen hundreds of times. We’ve also all seen plenty of the moon, which makes one complete orbit around our planet every 27.3…

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas giant planet orbits a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Their…

Today at AWSre:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space…

PTI Birmingham (UK), October 29All stars, including the Sun, have a finite lifetime.Stars shine by…

An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf -- the most common type of star in the universe -- appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for…

A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions have discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems. The two black holes, which…

New observations suggest a celestial object tracking Earth's orbit just about 9 miles (14.5km) away from the planet is a fragment of the Moon. Astronomers say the fragment was tossed into…

A glimpse of our solar system’s future has appeared thousands of light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. There a giant planet like Jupiter orbits a white dwarf, a dim, dense…