Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

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It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

Long-distance skateboarding has a deeper purpose for Al Renville Kopas, who traveled from Portland to honor missing and ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Is the Moon’s slow retreat from Earth a cosmic time bomb in our planet’s relationship or an entry to the precision of modern ...

The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...

Long-distance skateboarding has a deeper purpose for Al Renville Kopas, who traveled from Portland to honor missing and ...

The delta breeze has been strong and cool air has poured through and over the mountains, providing the Central Valley with a ...

The thunder of a solid rocket booster hurtling a scientific payload to the edge of space shook the sides of buildings on White Sands Missile Range Friday. The sounding rocket carried the first space t ...