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Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

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The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The video was captured by the orbiter’s Metis instrument, a coronagraph which blocks light directly from the Sun in order to see fainter ... aurorae in our planet’s skies.

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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