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Strange Tatooine world: A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs. Video via ESO. Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter.Join our 2025 Donation Campaign today. Tatooine exoplanets are

The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. They are 2 small galaxies orbiting our large, spiral Milky Way galaxy.

View larger. | This artist’s illustration depicts Titan’s organic-rich surface, with a lake near the north pole. Hydrocarbons coat the icy surface, hang in the atmosphere as smog and are

Michael Jaeger and Gerald Rhemann captured this shot of the new Comet SWAN. See it NOW in the morning sky with binoculars. Finder charts and more below. Used with permission.

View larger. | One of the Aguas Zarcas meteorites that landed in Costa Rica in 2019. A new study of these meteorites shows that mudball meteorites are not always as

View larger. | Artist’s concept of what’s thought to be the 1st-ever recorded incident wherein a star swallows its planet. The planet lies in a hot accretion disk surrounding the

Astronomers at the University of Warwick in the UK said they’ve identified 2 nearby white dwarf stars that are on course to collide and create a supernova explosion in about

View larger. | NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft took this image of part of Jezero crater from orbit. The enhanced colors highlight various mineral deposits. Here, you can clearly

This is an animation of the January 2017 Jupiter heatwave. Scientists used spectroscopic data from the Keck II Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to create the heat map. It is

View larger. | Various observations of Uranus by the Hubble Space Telescope over the 20-year period from 2002 to 2022. The findings yield new insights into Uranus’ atmosphere and how