TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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Astro Brief: Trans-Neptunian Objects

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New Horizons watches the solar wind as it slows down

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using ...
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Astronomers think they just witnessed two planets colliding

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children

Men carried disfigured limbs and torsos to the local hospital, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group, whose staff spoke ...