NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...
Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the length of a day.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, it’s difficult to grasp just how dramatic the topography of its surface really is.
The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, ...
Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...
February is the best month to see Venus. But clouds, storms might make it hard to spot in Mississippi on Valentine's Day. How stargazers see it.
The asteroid route is being closely watched as it moves around the sun and it will ... 500,000 miles of Earth on Christmas Day which is about twice the distance to the moon and it was discovered ...
INDEPENDENT - A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas ...
Scientists have been left baffled after a massive new hole, 62 times the size of Earth, has been discovered on the surface of the sun. Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ...
Two giant holes in the Sun could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February. Recent NOAA satellite images show two coronal holes, areas on the surface of the Sun with cooler plasma.
A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet ... similar to our sun, 20 light-years ...
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