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The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...
A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...
California lawmakers sent Newsom hundreds of bills to sign or veto by Oct. 12. Here's a look at some of the most high-profile ...
Experts have uncovered islands hundred times larger than Mount Everest and billions of years old Researchers have uncovered ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...
On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...
The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...
A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...
The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.