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NASA’s Spitzer detects a starry region bursting with bubbles

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and...

How close an exoplanet can be to its host star and remain habitable

Earth-like exoplanets with dry tropical regions can remain habitable at a closer distance to their host star than previously thought, a new study suggests. Because...

A special bond: supermassive black holes and their host galaxies

Some relationships are written in the stars. That's definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from...

Scientists discover most distant galaxy protocluster

Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection of 12 galaxies which existed about 13.0 billion...

Get ready for more strange, icy interstellar objects

Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way...

Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds

An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the...

Scientists find galaxy floating in a tranquil sea of halo gas

Analysis of radio pulses that passed through a galactic halo reveals a surprisingly quiescent halo with very low density and weak magnetic field. Using one...

Scientists discover a giant exoplanet that should not exist

Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical models predict. The red dwarf GJ 3512...

Scientists watch a black hole shredding a star

After passing too close to a supermassive black hole, the star in this artist's conception is torn apart into a thin stream of gas,...

Dinosaurs-killing metal could destroy cancer cell’s ‘power source’

A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using...