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Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

A team of researchers tracked an unusually intense region on the sun from its birth to its decay, capturing its activity over ...

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Among the most prevalent stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, M-dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. The ...

The winter solstice doesn’t coincide with the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. Those actually occur about two weeks ...

Study finds Mars helps pace Earth's ice ages through gravity. Remove Mars, and a major 2.4-million-year climate rhythm ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon positions itself between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. We explore the ...

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have calculated that clocks on Mars tick 477 ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

The familiar gray face in our night sky is not as passive as it looks. New research suggests the moon has been quietly ...