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New findings reveal a solar composition richer in carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen than previously thought, potentially ...

Seven years later -- after securing a record-setting $115 million grant to pursue the project, navigating delays through ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Past a prison and an elementary school, the T15 pipeline will traverse 45 miles of North Carolina countryside that Shelley ...

A company called New World Wind is turning solar and wind power generation on their heads with the Aeroleaf and associated ...