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Astronomers have long known how planets form, but the when of it has always been unclear. If a Cambridge University team's conclusion from a study of white dwarf stars proves correct, that question has been answered. The debate is…

Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies. The mass of the halo exerts a strong…

A sample dwarf galaxy (small box left) observed with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on AstroSat. AstroSat detected extremely blue star-forming clumps on the galaxy's outer boundary (box on left) (IUCAA)Dwarf galaxies, made up of a…

Scientists have identified a star that, they say, survived a massive explosion and ended up being brighter than before. The star is a kind known as a “white dwarf.” These are very dense objects that have a mass about equal to the sun.…

Weeks after astronomers released a historic image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, a separate study showed how it is probing the evolution of black holes in dwarf galaxies.A new analysis of dwarf galaxy…

A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified.According to a paper by astrophysicist Jonathan Katz of Washington University…

Ceres might be spewing cryovolcanoes in yet another spot on the dwarf planet's surface.Close-up pictures from NASA's Dawn mission that orbited Ceres between 2015 and 2018 revealed salt deposits in a crater known as Urvara, spotted for…

For how progressive diminutive “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage thinks he is, his social justice sentiments are now blocking an actual minority community from their “dream jobs.”  Dinklage is now getting called out by Hollywood’s…

One of my favorite aspects about the vast number of exoplanets detected so far — coming up on 5,000 of these alien worlds — is that with so many discovered, you can see trends in their characteristics, as well as find…