Viral speculation that earth was now home to a second moon has circulated social media over the past days, but astronomers ...

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Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...

Astrometric exoplanet discovery relies on detection of stellar motion caused by planetary companions. Systems with orbital period close to one year may escape detection if orbital motion of their host ...

Astronomers identified asteroid 2025 PN7 as a quasi-moon of Earth in 2025, a rare celestial companion sharing Earth's solar ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion ...

The apparent brightness of celestial objects, rather than their proximity, is the primary factor determining observability. Andromeda Galaxy, despite its vast distance, appears significantly brighter ...