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Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

The pattern points to a central bar in formation that drove outward movement of Sun-like stars, offering a constraint on when the bar emerged.

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Saturn-Mass Rogue Planet Gets First Direct Mass and Distance Measurement

Astronomers Unveil Largest Low-Frequency Radio Color Map of the Milky Way

TOI-2267 Becomes First Binary With Planets Transiting Each Star

Gaia DR3 Maps 35,000 Variable Stars Across 1,200 Milky Way Open Clusters

Hubble Captures Coma of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Experts Uphold Natural Origin

Global Telescopes Capture Active Coma of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Active Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Set for Safe Solar System Passage

Milky Way’s Fate Hinges on 50-50 Odds of Andromeda Collision