On July 20, for viewers in the US and Canada, the waning crescent Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades, eclipsing them ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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New research suggests that at any given time, Earth may temporarily capture up to half a dozen fragments from the moon, known ...

Earth may briefly capture as many as six moon fragments — called minimoons — at any given time before they move on to orbit ...

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"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an incredibly fast speed, averaging nearly 106,000 miles per hour. These are just a ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

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