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The 1960s weren’t just about sending robots into space; it was the decade we started sending people. This era marked a huge ...
Mercury retroshade refers to the two-week period immediately preceding retrograde and the two weeks following it. Look alive, folks!
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.
This week NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provided the first direct image of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn's, orbiting the young star TWA 7.
The enhanced-color image of Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Science. Mercury is a mystery. It’s the smallest planet in our solar system, the ...
Venus has long carried the nickname “Earth’s twin,” yet most people picture it as a static, oven‑hot wasteland with a geologically dead surface. A fresh look at radar and gravity records from NASA’s ...
NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.
Jonny Kim/NASA NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has shared his first-ever time-lapse from aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — and it’s a real stunner. The dramatic 68-second clip shows a ...
Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky ...
The Phoenix Mercury travel to Los Angeles to take on the Sparks in a WNBA Commissioner's Cup game.
New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.
Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help scientists better understand the Red Planet's climate history and search for ...