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Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...
Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...
You can pick up Pierce Brown’s Red Rising book series for cheap right now, thanks to Amazon's "buy 2, get 1 free" sale for ...
Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...
Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...
Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, but does that mean they could host ...