Perhaps the greatest discovery to come from the “Golden Age of General Relativity” (ca. 1960 to 1975) was the realization
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Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planets
A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that
Continue readingTESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm
Continue readingTwo new planets discovered using artificial intelligence
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two
Continue readingMystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be
Continue readingAnomalously Huge Planets Have Been Detected Orbiting a Bafflingly Young Star
A wee baby star at the tender age of just 2 million years has revealed itself to be quite the
Continue readingFive in a row—the planets align in the night sky
For the second time this year, the five brightest planets can be seen at the same time. You can catch
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