Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

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Man” Wallace stood before Queen Anne’s County Commissioners Oct. 14 with stories from one of Earth’s most remote places and a ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days — the ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

New telescope images show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is shooting a giant jet of gas and dust toward the sun. This ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.

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