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Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

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In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...