Astronomers may have caught the first stages of planets being born around infant stars. The discovery came about when a…
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The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of…
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Read More »The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in…
Read More »Credit: NOAA Photo LibraryThe third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3), scheduled to take place in Nice, France from 9-13…
Read More »When you think of a planet with rings, majestic Saturn almost definitely comes to mind. But it’s not the only…
Read More »Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps…
Read More »Astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed images yet of young solar systems where planets are just beginning to take…
Read More »Central Asia’s desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth’s mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is…
Read More »How Many Rogue Planets Roam the Milky Way? According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their…
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