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Earth has a new co-moving neighbour. It’s a new member of the group of asteroids that follow Earth-like orbits and are called quasi-satellites. Together, they constitute an asteroid belt.

Here we fly through Gaia’s new 3D map of stellar nurseries. This new map includes 3D-views of the Gum Nebula, the North American Nebula, the California Nebula, and the Orion-Eridanus

It’s rather strange to think about catching a planet in the act of being born given that the process takes millions of years but for the first time, astronomers have

ISOs like Comet 3I/ATLAS are fascinating yet fleeting visitors from distant solar systems. New research suggests that when captured by a young solar system that’s still forming planets, these objects

Can a planet that lacks plate tectonics and has very little carbon dioxide support life? Maybe. Can it support life long enough for a technological civilization to arise? New research

Lasers aren’t just useful for entertaining cats or pointing out features of powerpoint slides. They can also drill holes on icy extraterrestrial bodies from comets to Mars polar caps. At

Just as Earth has its four familiar seasons, our Sun experiences its own version of seasonal cycles that affect life on our planet. But unlike Earth’s yearly rhythm, the Sun’s

For the second time in history, the gentle glow of the aurora has been captured in Mars’s night sky. It’s a phenomenon we enjoy here on Earth and we can,

I still remember the first time I saw Saturn through a 10 inch telescope when I was ten years old. It looked just like it did in pictures, a pale

A binary star that has puzzled astronomers for decades may finally be explained. The accretor star is sucking material from its donor star so rapidly that it can’t contain it