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Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

After using their new technique , the astronomers measured the star’s color-reliant imagery shifts with five times the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

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The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky ...