After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan MitchellMaricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

(The point at the end of the apsis is the aphelion). For some bodies, like all of the planets of the solar system, the difference between the perihelion and aphelion is quite negligible.

Get ready for a deep partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025, which will occur at sunrise in North America and mid-morning across Europe. On Saturday, March 29, 2025, a deep partial solar eclipse ...

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Astronomers and space enthusiasts are in for a treat next month as we can expect a rare planetary parade. This celestial event will see Mercury joining Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

To any question you can ask, there’s apparently already an answer; in fact, there seem to be more answers than questions. Long before you’ve decided what you want to know, you’re told what ...