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Most known planets orbit a star. These planets, including Earth, benefit from the star’s warmth and light. ... Gaze at a cluster of glowing galaxies | Space photo of the day for May 2, 2025.

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A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be able to identify hundreds of rogue planets, which could even outnumber the stars in our galaxy.

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Planets, stars, and galaxies all spin. Now, astronomers are finding evidence that the universe itself might be spinning. By Staff | Published: April 27, 2015 | Last updated on May 18, 2023 ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...

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Being a Star Trek nerd, I couldn’t help but imagine a universe where stars were fecund and planets were everywhere. But not knowing was agony. This story has a happy ending, though: Now we do ...