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When the Sun Becomes a Red Giant, Will Any Planet Be Safe?
Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...
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The Solar System’s Future: What Earth and Other Planets Will Experience When the Sun Dies
The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...
Eerie hidden world discovered by alien-hunting space telescope is first of its kind – and scientists nearly missed it
THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...
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The brightest planets in July's night sky: How to see them (and when)
Nearby will be the Bull's brightest star, orange Aldebaran, fairly conspicuous in its own right, yet still shining only a ...
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Earth’s Future in 1 Billion Years – What Will the Planet Look Like?
Earth has undergone incredible transformations over its 4.5 billion-year history,but what will it look like 1 billion years ...
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Mercury’s Steep Cliffs Might Be The Result Of The Sun Squeezing The Planet
Mercury is an odd little planet. The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, ...
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See Mercury at greatest elongation, its farthest from the sun in the evening sky this week
Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...
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On July 3, Earth Will Reach Its Farthest Point From The Sun – 152 Million Kilometers Away
On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called ...
Desert lichen offers new evidence for the possibility of life on other planets
The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...
Clingy planets can trigger their own doom, Cheops and TESS suggest
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting ...