Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called […]
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NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for a planetary astronomer
Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might
Using AI, historians trace how astronomical ideas spread in the 16th century
Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the
A distant quasar’s black hole is surprisingly large for its galaxy
The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical
The spiky filaments of a zombie star shed light on a 12th-century supernova
About 6,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows how