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Astronomers find giant hidden molecular cloud fueling star birth in Milky Way
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...
Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
What astronomers recently discovered about space using supercomputers
Cosmologists at Durham University in England made the discovery using a new technique that combines the highest-resolution ...
Astronomers use the colors of trans-Neptunian objects to track an ancient stellar flyby
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...
Dozens of ‘Ghost Galaxies’ Are Orbiting the Milky Way, Astronomers Suspect
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...
Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system
Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...
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Astronomers discover a cosmic 'fossil' at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for 'Planet 9'?
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...
Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto
For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...