A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

If you want to get a handle on all that, don’t expect any help from the AI companies—they’re turning on each other like it’s ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

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