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Imagine going to live on a planet where the sun never moves in the sky. No sunrise, no sunset. Several years ago, I became obsessed with tidally locked planets ...
For the first time ever, astronomers think they've discovered an exoplanet that survived a catastrophic collision with another planet. And according to the new ...
The next full Moon is the Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon, Sugar Moon, Worm Moon, Lenten Moon, Snow Moon, Hunger Moon, a supermoon and the ...
There's lots more light in the sky these early mornings, but if you're up before, say 6:15, you could still see the lovely combination of Venus, Jupiter, and maybe ...
Astronomers say they have the first evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar system.
Since astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet in 1995, they've gone on to uncover almost 3,900 distant worlds, with thousands still awaiting analysis.
NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday.
Astronomers led by Dr Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science have found 2018 VG18 – a new dwarf planet that's been nicknamed 'Farout'.
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can ...
ADVANCED alien lifeforms living in the depths of space are most likely a blend of organic bodies and cutting edge technology, a famous TV scientist has ...
After crossing between Earth and the sun on Oct. 26, 2018 it rose into the pre-dawn skies and has been a bright beacon for all who get a view of the eastern.
The waning crescent moon and the bright planet Jupiter appear fairly close together on Wednesday morning.
The world's glaciers and ice caps hold far less ice than Antarctica and Greenland. But as they shrink, they're impacting sea levels and water supplies.
New Delhi : Imagine a life outside the blue planet, Earth, where there is no sunrise, no sunset! Well, we cannot but astronomers have some different words to say ...
The stars that make up the Winter Hexagon asterism are some of the brightest in the night sky and February evenings are a great time to enjoy their sparkly ...
Most of Earth's life-essential elements probably arrived with the planetary collision that produced the moon. Petrologists now conclude Earth most likely received ...
Deep in outer space, two powerful storms brewed near Jupiter's iconic Red Spot. And the planet's colorful, swirling clouds became even more mesmerizing — a ...
A revolutionary technique developed by an NTID astrophysicist at Rochester Institute of Technology could allow for a better understanding of the fates of solar ...
THE BUILDING blocks for life on Earth likely came from another planet, according to a new study.
Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planet's watery past, has been brought ...
Scientists have found a huge object hovering on the edge of the solar system. The body could help shed light on how planets form and resolve a decades-old ...
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LONDON: Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its populations - including a doubling of consumption of nuts, ...
If you haven't played Terragenesis on Mobile, and you're the kind of person that likes space, and NASA, and science, there is no better time than now to.
NASA has greenlit a mission to explore the origins of the universe and collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in ...
Mark Jackson, who plays Isaac in the hit sci-fi comedy/drama 'The Orville' talks about what we can expect in the second half of Season 2.
Surveys of all the matter in the universe missed about a third of what was predicted by calculations. Scientists may have finally found the missing stash.
Most of us have, at some point, experienced travel congestion, especially during major holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. However, nothing ...
By Agence France-Presse. Saturn's rings are younger than scientists thought and appeared within the last 10 to 100 million years, according to research ...
A POTENTIALLY civilisation ending earthquake has been predicted within a WEEK after a tremor forecaster has analysed the position of the planets in the solar ...
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week introduced the Green New Deal — a sweeping package of proposals aimed at moving the U.S. ...
This group discussion features a video interview with Dr. Seth Shostak at the SETI Institute and author of 'Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for ...
If you're worried about what to do for Valentine's Day this year, we have a bold suggestion: treat your loved one to a really good look at Uranus.
Ah, the night sky! Millions of stars!There are actually far more than mere “millions” of stars over your head, but how many can you see with eyes alone?
A total lunar eclipse will occur overnight on Jan. 20-21, 2019. It will be visible across the continental U.S. and is nicknamed the “super blood wolf moon.”
The western lowland gorilla is characterized by a dynamic social structure and peaceful familial relations.
Space is literally all around us, but it's notoriously difficult to wrap our minds around it. Given the hundreds of billions of stars and planets that make up our galaxy ...
Researchers argue there needs to be an underground source of heat for liquid water to exist underneath the planet's south polar ice cap, as predicted by a ...
Unfazed by the outpouring of grief over NASA's admission that its teenaged Opportunity rover had likely trundled its last, the agency's lander, InSight, managed ...
The CDC has released a new estimate concerning flu-related deaths. The numbers range between 9600 to almost 16000 deaths for the 2018-2019 flu season.
After enduring the longest government shutdown in history, NASA stands to receive a big boost in funding for fiscal year 2019, thanks to a new budget bill signed ...
SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into ...
The Zwicky Transient Facility, a new instrument that scans the sky for transient events and alerts astronomers when they occur, has made incredible ...
The first unbiased survey of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars in the Taurus star-forming region turned up a higher-than-expected number of disks ...
Among the stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a small, dim red star that is attracting a lot of interest. It is only about 14 per cent of the mass of the sun, ...
Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, ...
Terra Loire's daily scan of horoscopes is as routine as her daily coffee. The 29-year-old Torontonian said horoscopes allow her to set goals for the day.
Deadline Hollywood reports that Aquaman star Jason Momoa—who immortalized Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in the first season of Game of Thrones—is in ...
Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone ...
The yearly Salon de Parapsy in Paris gathers soothsayers, healers, numerologists, magnetizers, aura photographers and a group of shamans from Siberia.
The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars. After 9½ years, NASA's premier exoplanet-hunter is out of gas. NASA officials ...
One possible reason we might not have found E.T. yet is that he might be a breath of "*fresh* air." A new study published in December suggests that exoplanets ...
The Kepler space telescope is officially out of fuel and will hunt planets no more, NASA announced.
Late last year, astronomers announced that they'd found a super-Earth around Barnard's star – one of the closest suns to our own. The discovery of a planet just ...
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical ...
Six light years away, a “super-Earth” planet has been found orbiting beyond our solar system - a discovery astronomers hope will help them with their research ...
Planets between the size of Neptune and Saturn shouldn't be rare after all, scientists realize, thanks to a trick of magnification.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a space telescope launched in 2018 that searches for planets orbiting distant stars, just found its third and ...
Astroneer's stunning planets play stage to a serene yet underpowered journey.
NASA's newest planet-hunting mission has reported detecting its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new ...
Astronomers think they've just discovered two more rogue planets wandering the Milky Way alone. And according to the new study, which is set for publication in ...
Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert have discovered Saturn- and Jupiter-sized planets orbiting a star named CI Tau.
One of seven planets orbiting a small star, TRAPPIST-1, may be capable of supporting life as we know it on Earth, new climate models suggest. Located 39 ...
In 2016, astronomers announced there was a new planet in the outer solar system. Planet Nine, supposedly larger than Neptune and located far beyond the ...
Today marks the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been ...
Kepler mission discovered thousands of exoplanets with novel technique.
Astronomers used the powerful ALMA telescope to discover that in other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (seen here) there is potentially a large population of ...
New NASA research confirms that Saturn's rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic ...
Our outer solar system is a dark, cold place that's difficult to explore from Earth. But careful observations are turning up more and more evidence for a massive ...
As NASA's Kepler space telescope ends work, scientists recount their favorite discoveries and how the mission has changed astronomy forever.
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The US space agency Nasa has landed a new robot on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red Planet. The InSight probe aims to ...
In studying Mars, NASA's InSight will reveal what makes one planet more or less suitable for life than another.
While homing in on the seemingly single star, astronomers found an unexpected, much smaller companion star lurking in the outskirts of its dense disk — the ...
Astronomers announced last week the discoveries of the first two potential planets detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new ...
Forget no-deal Brexit, there's a far worse disaster hurtling towards us from the dark, cold spaces at the edge of our solar system - fictional death planet Nibiru!
New telescope images give the clearest view of an exoplanet embryo yet.
J.J. Abrams commemorated the end of Star Wars: Episode 9 filming by sharing a new photo from the set and we break down what it reveals about the film.
An ambitious team of astronomers has discovered the most “far out” object ever observed in our solar system. The object, a pink dwarf planet called 2018 VG18 ...
As BepiColombo heads to Mercury — a long-neglected planet — Nature looks at which planets attract scientific missions, and why.
Hints of young planets in a survey of dusty disks around newborn stars puzzle theorists.
NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope is hard at work gathering its first data — but just how many planets might it hunt down? According to new estimates put ...
Scientists have discovered 15 new planets, including a “super-Earth” that may have liquid water on its surface.
Red dwarfs may not be great places to find life-supporting planets. The stars might blow all the water and chemical building blocks away.
A team of astronomers says that both Pluto and Earth's moon should be considered planets.
Astronomers are poring over the candidates from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to confirm how many are bona fide planets.
The speed and distance at which planets orbit their respective blazing stars can determine each planet's fate—whether the planet remains a longstanding part of ...
The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets ...
Three baby planets have been found in our own galaxy by pioneering scientists. They are the youngest planets ever seen, and represent a discovery that is "at ...
Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, but there may be a good reason why scientists have yet to find it – it may be hiding.
Contrary to what simplified Styrofoam ball models of the solar system from grade school taught us, our planetary neighborhood contains much more than the sun ...
Perhaps no other star system has elicited so much wonder, mystery and frustration as Barnard's Star. Astronomers announced last Wednesday they'd ...
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
No one is saying that any pointy-eared aliens live there, but astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting 40 Eridani A, a star known to "Star Trek" fans as ...
A Japan-Spain team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez at the Teide ...
NASA's InSight has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet.
Astronomers in Germany captured the first clear images of a newborn planet in the process of formation around its young star.
A study by University of Arizona in US has found that the Super-Earth and Neptune-sized planets could be forming in the cosmic dust around young stars in a ...
It's known as the final frontier, and there are still so many questions. UNLV researchers are hoping to unlock the answer to how planets form, and they are now ...