Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a ...

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As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...

The most realistic picture yet of how galaxies formed and then evolved from the beginning of time has been revealed in a ...

Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn’t the real one, maybe it’s more like a big video game, or the movie ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...