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Planet in a double star system

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Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion

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Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe

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How astonishing observatories could do big physics from the moon

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How astonishing observatories could do big physics from the moon

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Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet

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artist's impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around its host stars

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Exoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pair

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Eta Aquarids meteor shower

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How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers

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KHKRFM Haumea and moons, illustration. Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. It is noted for its elongated shape, somewhat like a rugby ball. It is orbited by at least two moons and a narrow ring of rocky particles.

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How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system's strangest objects

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Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'

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An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

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Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses

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See a shimmering hourglass-shaped star system in exquisite detail

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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought

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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre

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How to tell a planet from a star – and one planet from another

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