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Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...
"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...
Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...
The crew of an alien spacecraft entering the Solar System, maybe looking for planets bearing alien life, would be struck by ...
"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...
What is the bright star in the east right now? Venus, the bright "Morning Star," shines brilliantly in the pre-dawn sky this ...
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
The UK government is investing £50 million in a geoengineering project to explore solar radiation management, aiming to ...
Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...