Senate Democrats are poised to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other ...

For decades, Mercury has been seen as astatic, heavily cratered planet, a relic of early Solar System history. Its surface, ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

A faint signal was initially detected by a team of citizen scientists — including the study’s first author, Alexander Venner, ...

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the ...

According to an analysis published by the astrology and relationship-focused website YourTango, life is set to improve ...

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A star like our Sun lost a large part of its brightness for nearly nine months. This unusual behavior immediately caught the ...

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