Amateur astronomers capture flash from asteroid impacting Jupiter
Event is thought to have been caused by a body tens of metres across
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Astronomers define new class of potentially habitable ocean worlds
Hot, ocean-covered “Hycean” exoplanets may be more common and easier to spot than Earth-like ones
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Astronomers capture most detailed images of large, rare metal asteroid
Thermal emissions of asteroid 16 Psyche provide further clues to its composition and origins
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Saturn’s rings oscillate to the tune of its large and ‘messy’ core
Cassini mission observes interplay between core and rings of gas giant
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Moon-forming disc is spotted around a giant exoplanet
Observation could help explain how moons form around gas-giant planets like Jupiter
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NASA craft provides an insight into Mars’ interior
Insight mission reveals tantalizing details about how Mars may have formed across billions of years
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Vibrations drive X-ray flares in Jupiter’s aurora
Simultaneous observations by NASA’s Juno and ESA’s XMM Newton satellites shed light on 40-year-old mystery
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Microlensing reveals free-floating planets alone in deep space
Astronomers find evidence for four Earth-sized planets wandering freely through space, unbound to any host star
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Huge Oort Cloud object has been spotted entering the outer solar system
Comet-like object was revealed in data from the Dark Energy Survey
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Electrons ‘surf’ on Alfvén waves in plasma-chamber experiments
Research explains how aurora-creating particles are accelerated
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