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New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.
The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...
A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
NASA simulated 80,000 years of solar wind in one week to prove the Moon creates water from sunlight and dust—unlocking a game ...
A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...
The Sunday that Easter falls on is usually the first Sunday that follows the Paschal Full Moon. This is the first full moon ...
Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...