The Habitable-zone Planet Finder has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet that is likely close in size to Neptune, only 100 light years from Earth.
Exoplanet NGTS-10b is either "in the last stages of its life, or somehow it's able to live here longer than it should."
Like a real life version of the game Asteroids, the majority of stars will become so luminous that their light causes asteroids to break into smaller bits.
New research determines that stardust from the Murchison meteorite is the oldest solid material ever found on Earth.
"This is the first time we have been able to determine when such a merger happened."
To create gamma ray bursts, the universe's brightest explosions, stars need to be part of a binary system, researchers say.
Thanks to NASA's TESS spacecraft, scientists have discovered two amazing new worlds: A potentially habitable exoplanet and one with two suns.
A new composite image of the Milky Way appears to contain a cosmic candy cane.
The Earth is partly made of stardust from red giant stars, aging stars that expand because they've run out of fuel in their core.
The first observations from NASA's Parker Solar Probe "will fundamentally change our understanding of the sun," researchers say.
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