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Space Solar revelations as Comet 3I/ATLAS rapidly brightens, a tiny tyrannosaur prompts T. rex rethink, and the unexpected ...

This gap in knowledge has long prevented scientists from fully understanding the dynamics of solar activity, which can ...

Despite being so high up, there is no night sky — or stars —in Mexico City. Andrea Fischer asked an expert why that is.

Climate change and rising authoritarian threats put our future at risk. Bill McKibben discusses his book Here Comes the Sun ...

We know of three interstellar objects (ISO) that have visited our inner solar system. Oumuamua was the first one, and it came ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

Astrotourism continues to be one of the world's leading trends, and many travelers make big plans to cross oceans and ...

High atop the arid plateaus of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of humanity's most powerful astronomical instruments peers into ...

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