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Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago.

A rare and extremely bright nova explosion has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy close to our own ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission.

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The Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board in collaboration with Starscapes, India's leading astrotourism company, has ...

Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the first scientists ever to merge the fields of physics and astronomy.

This week, researchers discovered a near-Earth microquasar that sheds new light on sources of relativistic outflows. Doctors ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

The biggest new telescopes are being built in the mountains of Chile. They could change our understanding of the universe.

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A comet, named ATLAS, discovered by astronomers in Hawaii, might be visible to the naked eye starting October 24. It could be ...