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In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns.While ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

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Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...

Astronomical winter begins Sunday, Dec. 21 in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's how the solstice works.