The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

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Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

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