New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

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Scientists at the Simulation and Data Lab Astronomy and Astrophysics at Forschungszentrum Jülich have carried out more than 3,000 computer simulations to find the cause of the unusual orbits of ...

A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of ancient ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

There are multiple orbits coexisting in our universe. The Earth orbits the Sun within the Solar System. Our Solar System is part of the Milky Way galaxy, which itself orbits a huge black hole at ...

The universe is full of oddities and formations that range from magnetars to solar systems with four stars. One of those ...

The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) package of manuscripts, data, protocols, and code represents the largest-ever compendium of data for aerospace medicine and space biology. Over 100 ...