Newly discovered comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will soon be gracing our evening sky. Here's how to see it and what to expect.
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...
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Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered 'Quasi-Moon,' a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun
Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...
President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new space weather missions, though, are more closely tied to his ...
Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.
McComas, a professor of astrophysical sciences and associated faculty in mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the ...
JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...
The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...
NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...
Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.
The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.
With the race for clean energy intensifying, scientists are revisiting an old idea: harvesting the Sun’s power from space ...
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