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A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...
NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...
All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...
From Mercury’s peak visibility to the Southern delta Aquariids meteor shower, July’s skywatching lineup promises an array of ...
The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...
Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...
Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...
But in the early 1980s, Dennis Hope, who had been unemployed for around a year, believed he had found a loophole. The Outer ...
Hidden deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable undersea landscape known as the Lost City Hydrothermal Field could be ...
To think of a life with such a singular purpose is both "exhilarating and depressing,'' says Hand, 41, a National Geographic emerging explorer. "The pendulum swings both ways,'' he says.
No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.
Much of the three-part “Planet Weird,” which goes out of its way to find the nutty in nature, is simultaneously fascinating and disgusting—the much sought-after synthesis of wildlife ...