Astronomers just announced the most distant – and therefore youngest – spiral galaxy yet seen in…
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Discovery of a disintegrating planet with cometlike tail
Watch EarthSky’s founder Deborah Byrd interview Marc Hon of MIT, the lead author of the new…
How would the Milky Way have looked in the early universe?
If we could see our home galaxy the Milky Way as it was in the early…
Life on K2-18b? Exciting new results met with skepticism
View larger. | Artist’s concept of K2-18b as a Hycean world with a global ocean and…
Is our whole universe spinning? A new study suggests it is
Our planet, solar system and even the Milky Way galaxy are spinning. But is our entire…
Most meteorites that hit Earth aren’t typical. Why?
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Doug Ingram from Bodalla, Australia, captured this fireball on September…
Rare Tatooine world has a weird orbit around brown dwarfs
Strange Tatooine world: A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs. Video via ESO.…
Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping apart its smaller neighbor
The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory…
Is there life on Titan? If so, it’s very rare
View larger. | This artist’s illustration depicts Titan’s organic-rich surface, with a lake near the north…
Not all mudball meteorites are weak, new study shows
View larger. | One of the Aguas Zarcas meteorites that landed in Costa Rica in 2019.…