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A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

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Astronomers are detecting hundreds of exoplanets — worlds that don't orbit the sun — each year. Here are some of the new 2024 ...

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MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

Credit: MIT/Ella Maru and Julien de Wit By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... ever seen in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. "We have been able to detect near-Earth ...