For decades, astronomers have been aware that something just isn’t quite right about our solar system. Over the years, detections of anomalies in the orbits of distant dwarf planets and icy objects in ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

Mars is one of the only other places NASA know life may have existed in the solar system. The Red Planet is the fourth from the sun and is the seventh largest planet. As the planet is dry ...

The average home solar system has 20 to 25 solar panels, to keep up with how much energy the average American home uses in a year (10,791 kilowatt-hours). Solar panels will still generate ...

Astronomers have discovered a freezing-cold world orbiting within the so-called "forbidden zone" around a dying star in which planets are normally destroyed. The 5.8-billion-year-old white dwarf ...

May 16, 2025 • Even though the 145% tariff on Chinese imports only lasted a month, it already inflicted its scars on the economy. Global trade is just not something you can turn off and on like ...

The Wolf Amendment, a law that prevents bilateral cooperation in space research between the U.S. and China, is preventing U.S. government-funded analysis of the Chang'e 5 moon samples. A glass ...

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