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Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Scientists at the Los Alamos ...
NASA Spots a Star and Planet Racing at 1.2 Million MPH – A Record-Breaking Discovery
A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.
Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
First 3D observations of an exoplanet's atmosphere reveal a unique climate
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...
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Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets?
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...
Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.
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Astronomers gauge livability of exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars
Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...