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‘Weird’ New Planet Defies Expectations

Artist’s concept of TIC365102760 b, nicknamed Phoenix for its ability to survive a red giant star’s intense radiation from up…

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Webb Telescope Uncovers a Mysterious Carbon Treasure Trove Around Young Star

This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team…

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First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy

Magnetic fields have been detected for the first time in three massive stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.…

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MIT Physicists Link Dark Matter to “Super-Charged” Microscopic Black Holes

Depiction of a primordial black hole forming amid a sea of hot, color-charged quarks and gluons, a tiny fraction of…

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James Webb Unmasks the Carbon-Rich Secrets of Protoplanetary Disks

The MIRI Mid-Infrared Disk Survey (MINDS), uses the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI to study the chemistry and physical properties…

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Astrophysicists Unleash Planetary Power To Probe the Universe’s Deepest Mysteries

The groundbreaking concept proposed by HKUST Department of Physics Prof. Liu’s team allows a single astronomical telescope in the Earth’s…

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“Extraordinary” Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics

Researchers at the University of Sydney and CSIRO have discovered a neutron star that spins slower than any previously known,…

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James Webb Telescope Reveals Unexpected Exoplanet Atmosphere

This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like. Also called Janssen, 55 Cancri e is…

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Webb Uncovers Most Distant Known Galaxy – “Most Significant Extragalactic Discovery to Date”

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared…

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Astrophysicists Detect Potential Collisional Dark Matter in “El Gordo”

Simulations of the galaxy cluster “El Gordo” suggest that dark matter may be self-interacting, supporting the Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM)…

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