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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

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 announce the discovery of V774104, the most distant object yet found in the Solar System, a dwarf planet orbiting at three times the distance of Pluto.
2015-11-11

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

Scientists debate the possibility that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in September 1977, may have left the Solar System.
2013-03-20

ESO says Makemake, one of the Solar System’s five dwarf planets, has been found to have no atmosphere.
2012-11-22

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