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coupling them with plenty of cartoon illustrations and the kind of choice typography that makes a good comic strip. All told, this is a really fun insight into the cosmos that could inspire future ...

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Astronomers used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a young planet. The researchers suspect it could become a super-Earth ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

A 36-foot-wide asteroid pulled into Earth’s orbit has become a second "mini-moon" for almost two months. But this ...

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