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A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...
A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...
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"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...
A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...
And then there’s Hong Kong’s world-beating contemporary art scene. The pinnacle of the city’s cultural calendar is its annual ...
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Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Round two of the 2025 Guinness Women's Six Nations threw up three intriguing games in the wider context of the title race.
Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...
Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.
Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.