A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

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Celebrity F1 fan Jeremy Clarkson believes the Brazilian Grand Prix proved that outgoing Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton is “past his prime” in Formula 1. And he reckons Hamilton‘s F1 2021 ...

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Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final negotiations of ...

Rare planetary alignments, known as major conjunctions, have coincided with significant events in human history. The recent conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 2020, the closest in centuries ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One year on the distant ice planet is 248 Earth years, and one day is 153 ...