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Artificial Intelligence Just Identified 44 Earth-Like Planets — What To Know
A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...
Mysterious objects from other stars are passing through our solar system. Scientists are planning missions to study them up close
In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...
Webb Captures a Planet’s Final Plunge Into Its Star – And It Wasn’t What Scientists Expected
Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...
Webb telescope snaps spectacular view of distant cosmic scene
Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at planetary nebula NGC 1514, where a star is shedding copious amounts of gas into the universe as it gradually exhausts its fuel and ...
Milky Way's Largest Stellar Black Hole Discovery
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...