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In 1936 Albert Einstein described how gravity could briefly magnify the light of a distant star, an effect now called gravitational microlensing.

A team of astronomers has now used that cosmic trick to reveal the presence of a gas giant planet…

Starfish are beautiful organisms, but if you think about it a little deeper, they’re also really strange. As echinoderms, they’re relatives of sea cucumbers and urchins, meaning at one point they shared a similarly symmetrical body plan split…

An astrophotographer…

A new study published on arXiv suggests a potentially catastrophic scenario for Earth’s satellites and space infrastructure in 2032. If the asteroid 2024 YR4, a city-killer asteroid, were to strike the Moon, the resulting debris could threaten…

Mountains, sub-glacial lakes, hidden valleys, even remnants of lost civilizations: what lies under Antarctica’s vast 2,000-metre thick ice sheet has long been a mystery akin to the depths of the ocean or the dark side of the moon.

As big as the…

Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden family of asteroids quietly orbiting the Sun alongside the planet. This discovery, detailed in a recent study by Valerio…

The James Webb Space Telescope just caught two young planets throwing sand into their own skies. Its view of the YSES‑1 system, roughly 300 light‑years away in the constellation Musca, shows silicate grains swirling through alien…