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Study Reports Tenuous Atmosphere on a 500-Kilometer Kuiper Belt World

If confirmed, the finding would force scientists to rethink how small icy worlds hold onto thin air.

Most Precise Local Hubble Measurement Sets H0 at 73.5 km/s/Mpc

JWST Finds Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Giant Planet Around a Small Red Dwarf

Cornell Team Publishes Vetted List of 45 Rocky Exoplanets Most Likely to Host Life

Gravitational-Lens Time Delays Deliver New Hubble Constant, Deepening the Tension

NASA Study Warns Satellite Megaconstellations Will Contaminate Space-Telescope Images

Astronomers Map 50-Million–Light-Year Rotating Cosmic Filament Nearby

Researchers Identify Compact 'Inner Kernel' in the Kuiper Belt at 43 AU

Record Black Hole Flare Points to Tidal Disruption of a Giant Star

Princeton Study Points to Possible Distant ‘Planet Y’ Shaping Kuiper Belt Orbits

Study Flags Hidden Venus Co-Orbitals That Could Drift Into Earth-Crossing Paths

ASKAP Maps 185,000-Light-Year Hydrogen Bridge Between Two Dwarf Galaxies

Study Flags Hidden Venus Co-Orbital Asteroids as Long-Term Earth Hazard

ALMA Maps Fomalhaut’s Warped Debris Ring, Pointing to Hidden Planet Sculptors

JWST Study Points to Earendel Being a Compact Star Cluster

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe

Coherent Satellite Planes Around NGC5713/19 Offer Window into Milky Way–Andromeda Merger

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

New Distant Sednoid ‘Ammonite’ Casts Doubt on Planet Nine Hypothesis