Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...

A GPS smartwatch that helps beginners gamify their fitness with car-like data and takes elite athletes to new levels.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the atmospheric origin of exoplanet GJ 1214 b and its results challenges ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...