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A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

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If that's the case, the comet may be a relic of the early galaxy, dating billions ... tugs of an untold number of Milky Way ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.