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The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...
A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles.
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A newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star smaller than our Sun, located roughly 110 light-years from Earth in the ...
The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot gas rises from inside the star to reach the surface. They’re around 12 ...
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Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
YR4 might collide with the Moon in 2031, with a 4.3% chance of impact, according to NASA's updated calculations.