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After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS might be a deliberately steered alien probe—an ...

Astronomers found signs that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is radiating a "heartbeat" pulse of light that repeats ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, ...

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing ...

Detroit's Solar Intelligence Training Academy equips residents with skills in solar technology, environmental justice, and ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...