Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
Ecuador’s vanguard moral-legal compass for nature is perhaps why the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago 900km off the ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...
A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches ...
When most people think of astrology, they typically think of their zodiac sign, also known as their Sun sign—the one that ...
Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age on Apple TV shifts focus from dinosaurs to Pleistocene-era animals, using advanced photogrammetry ...
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