An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

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Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

This article details our understanding of star and planet formation within galaxies, recognising the dynamic nature of ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star like a planetary Pac-Man.

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