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Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

The Sonoma Coast, with its dark skies, attracts night photographers for celestial photography, especially during favorable ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

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Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

Using the Spektr-RG (SRG) space observatory, astronomers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have investigated dozens of ...

The moon will slide in front of the red supergiant star Antares on May 13, briefly blocking its light just a day after ...

Ralf Klessen investigates the physical processes that governed the formation of the first generation of stars in the early ...