Evidence for small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the solar corona
Data description The data were obtained on 30 October 2023 by the Cryo-NIRSP instrument located at the US…
Astronomers Have Discovered Earth’s Latest Quasilunar Moon
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Earth Could Have Six More ‘Quasi-Moons’ Like 2025 PN7
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Watch suspected space junk be found on remote road in Australia
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California Startup Wants to Launch 4,000 Mirrors to Orbit. Scientists Are Alarmed
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Does Earth have 2 moons? Not exactly. Here’s what to know
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Scientists May Have Found the Smallest Clump of Dark Matter Ever Seen — and It’s Still a Million Times Heavier Than the Sun
Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colored). The dark, low-mass object is…
Orionid meteor shower to hit 2025 peak. When it is, how to view
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How to See Comet Lemmon This October
It was early January 2025 when a faint light spot was observed at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in…
Cutting through space noise in hunt for distant Earth-like planets
EU-funded researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the…
Could humans build floating cities on Venus?
The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now,…
Astronomers detect million-solar-mass object in distant universe
Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance…