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When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

Florian said the planetary parade should be visible throughout Alberta until the end of February, with the last Earth-visible ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

Just as Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move through the signs of the zodiac as they orbit, so do the outer planets.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.