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High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

A population of asteroids silently shares Venus's orbit, creating a potential threat to our planet. These celestial bodies, ...

Jaw-dropping scenes show a "train" of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites in orbit - along with an impressive aurora. NASA ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Supermoons are irregular but not rare events; typically, three to four occur each year. They happen in consecutive months due ...

As of Thursday, Oct. 10, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. Tonight, only 84% will be lit up, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...