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Astronomers at the Telescope Array Project in Utah, United States, observe the second largest cosmic ray ever detected, the so-called "Amaterasu particle", with an energy of 244 EeV.
2023-11-24

Astronomers announce the discovery of HD 110082 b, a sub-Neptune exoplanet that is three times larger than Earth and which orbits a relatively young star.
2021-02-17

London's Metropolitan Police reports that around 200 books worth £2.5 million were recovered from a house in Neamț County, Romania. The books, believed to have been stolen by Romanian gangs from a London warehouse in January 2017, include first editions by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei and English scientist Isaac Newton, and sketches by Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
2020-09-18

Astronomers rule out the chances of ~30-meter asteroid 2006 QV impacting Earth in September 2019 by eliminating the possibility of its passing through an area where it would have to be if it were on an impacting orbit. Prior to this, the asteroid had been given a one-in-7,000 chance of impacting Earth.
2019-07-17

NASA astronomers use the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in research implying that "hot Saturn" (high surface-atmosphere temperatures and gas giant-mass) exoplanet WASP-39b, located 700 light-years from Earth, has a large amount of water molecules in its atmosphere.
2018-03-1

Astronomers, for the first time, discover a moon orbiting around an exoplanet.
2014-04-11

ESO astronomers discover an unexpected spiral structure around carbon star R Sculptoris.
2012-10-10

A joint team of British and US astronomers announce the discovery of Wasp 12b, a planet (1200 light years away) with an ultra-high concentration of carbon, and the first of its type.
2010-12-8

Scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague to try to solve the mystery of his sudden death.
2010-11-15

Astronomers discover the first Earth analog extrasolar planet that may be capable of supporting life, Gliese 581 g, located within the habitable zone and orbiting Gliese 581, a red dwarf star twenty light years from the Solar System.
2010-09-29