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4 Tiny Planets Found Orbiting Earth's Closest Solitary Star
Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...
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Watch asteroid 2024 YR4 zoom harmlessly through space after risk of hitting Earth falls to near zero (video)
The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.
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ESO observations help almost fully rule out 2024 YR4 asteroid impact
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...
33,000 km/h Winds? Scientists Just Found the Fastest Jetstream on an Alien World
A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...
This Asteroid Had a 3 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth and Now It’s Zero
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
Newsweek on MSN11d
Exoplanet's Winds 'Challenge Our Understanding of How Weather Works'
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.