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As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.
A11pl3Z's eccentricity is now estimated to be near 6.0, the highest seen yet, confirming its hyperbolic orbit.
ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...
Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...
What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.
Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...
By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System’s orbital plane, the spacecraft has captured the first clear images of the Sun’s south pole. According to the ESA, these observations (and other ...
From 'Moonlight' to 'Parasite,' documentaries to superhero epics — our picks for the greatest movies of the past 25 years ...