Imagine a world filled only with daisies. Light-colored daisies reflect sunlight, cooling down the planet, while darker daisies absorb sunlight, warming it up. Together, these two types of daisies ...

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...

Two giant holes in the Sun could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February. Recent NOAA satellite images show two coronal holes, areas on the surface of the Sun with cooler plasma.

Varsha Agarwal Updated : Jan 28, 2025, 12:35 PM IST China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as the "artificial sun," has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in nuclear ...

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Researchers said the planet has a mass six times greater than our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun. While located 20 light-years away, scientists believe the ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

A new image from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission shows the spacecraft’s first glimpse of the moon. Launched nearly two weeks ago, the spacecraft is headed to the moon where it aims to ...

They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up ... That gaseous material is on its way to Earth, blowing out at speeds of more than 310 miles per second. Per Spaceweather.com ...

Astronomers have just uncovered an intriguing planet not far from us in cosmic terms. It’s a super-Earth, orbiting a star similar to our Sun, and it might have the conditions necessary to support life ...

Scientists just set a new record in attempts to create an 'artificial Sun' down here on planet Earth. The team behind the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China kept their ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...