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One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...
No, you aren't imagining it. NASA has confirmed that the days are indeed getting shorter, as our planet spins faster than ever before.
In the movie Contact, the action starts with the Very Large Array, a large radio telescope in the U.S., picking up an alien radio signal.
As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...
NASA officials remain eager for Starliner to begin these regular crew rotation flights, even as its sole destination, the ISS ...
The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...
Beginning of the Muslim Era as Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina 1054: Three Roman legates fracture relations ...
As humanity sets its sights on long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, keeping astronauts healthy will be as ...
What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...
Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...
WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...