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NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals around a Sun-like star, some 155 light-years away from Earth. The star, ...
Six well-traveled adventurers went where they've never gone before when Blue Origin sent them on a 10-minute suborbital space ...
For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...
Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.
A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.
Attend telescope viewings, astronomer talks, and themed arts and crafts at these annual national park star parties and ...
The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.
Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.
Discovery of a possible dwarf planet suggests our cosmic backyard holds many more secrets to uncover It is an evocative idea ...