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Astronomy and planetary science articles from across Nature Portfolio Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Nature Astronomy is a truly multidisciplinary journal for the field, representing — and fostering closer interaction between — all of the key astronomy-relevant disciplines, by publishing the ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Astronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...