On one day in late April, something very unusual happened. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities was in just one country: India. This is according to data compiled by AQI, the air ...

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker Astronomers have discovered 27 new potential ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reiterated his support for Pluto to be reclassified as a planet. Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its orbital path of ...

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...

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Could Pluto be repromoted to planetary status? On Tuesday NASA administrator Jared Isaacman told a Senate committee hearing that he is “very much in the camp of make Pluto a planet again.” NASA is ...