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Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. A new study argues that ...

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WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way ...

A strange, elongated cloud of metal has appeared at the heart of one of the sky’s most familiar dead stars, and it may be the scattered corpse of a world that once orbited there. The giant iron bar ...

When we think of the United Arab Emirates, most of us imagine hundreds of glass skyscrapers, supercars driving along ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Learn how to spot Sirius, Procyon and their canine constellations, and discover the myths and science behind the dog stars.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.