From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

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The Parker Solar Probe has been gradually circling closer toward the sun since 2018, using flybys of Venus to gravitationally ...

The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic close encounter with the sun, passing through its blazing corona ...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have revolutionized our understanding of the solar system's formation with ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

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