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Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.
Can you drink Saturn’s rings? Saturn’s rings were likely first seen by Galileo in 1610. The speed at which an object orbits a ...
We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.
Last summer, leaders representing 11 global religions, from eastern faiths including Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” ...
Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...
A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...
On July 20, for viewers in the US and Canada, the waning crescent Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades, eclipsing them ...
From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...
New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...