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"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...
A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...
The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...
Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...
The pre-dawn sky on April 25 will see a conjunction of Venus, Saturn and a waning crescent moon, which will resemble a ...
With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...
Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...
Stargazers are in for a treat as the month of May brings multiple phenomena to the sky. After April brought the Lyrids meteor shower, with between 10 and 15 meteors per hour streaking through the sky ...