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A 36-foot-wide asteroid pulled into Earth’s orbit has become a second "mini-moon" for almost two months. But this ...

The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...

Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...

The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 to discover Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars, collected data on 170,000 ...

Ge noted the challenge of finding Earth-like planets, which have longer orbital periods around stars, making them harder to detect. In contrast, ultra-short-period planets, which orbit their stars ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

Join us for an illuminating conversation with 2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey, discussing her groundbreaking novel ...

Samantha Harvey’s novel 'Orbital' has won the Booker Prize. In a recent interview, she revealed that the book is more about ...

The book, which follows six people living on the International Space Station, was selected over five other finalists, ...