Almost half a century ago the creators of Star Wars imagined a life-sustaining planet, Tatooine, orbiting a pair of stars. Now, 44 years later, scientists have found new evidence that that five known systems with multiple ...
Astronomy
Apr 15, 2021
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Planet Nine is a theoretical, undiscovered giant planet in the mysterious far reaches of our solar system.
Astronomy
May 26, 2020
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A Chinese spaceship is working normally in orbit, with its solar panels in position and a communication link established, the government said Thursday.
Space Exploration
May 7, 2020
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Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays.
Astronomy
Apr 24, 2020
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Venezuela's first communications satellite, launched in 2008, is out of service due to a systems failure, the country's government said Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2020
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Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star, the sun, observing it up close. It will take the first-ever direct images of its poles, while also studying the inner heliosphere—the bubble-like region around the sun created ...
Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2020
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The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or at least hoped, it seems ...
Astronomy
Sep 27, 2019
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It's brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system—Jupiter's moon Europa. That's thanks to a recent announcement by NASA that the orbiter ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2019
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Astronomers have discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter that travels on a long, egg-shaped path around its star. If this planet were somehow placed into our own solar system, it would swing from within our asteroid ...
Astronomy
Aug 27, 2019
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On 25 July, an asteroid the size of a football field flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet's surface during its closest approach—about one fifth of the distance to the Moon.
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