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Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period...

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building...

An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA’s Chandra X-ray...

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three...

A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.

A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.