Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...
offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...
Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...
Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system ... Our own moon, of course, exhibits all the phases. Superior planets, though, usually appear gibbous, and appear full only ...
Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A.
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...