ULA crews at Cape Canaveral have already stacked the next Vulcan rocket on its mobile launch platform in anticipation of ...

Players in Hogwarts Legacy can customize their own wand at Ollivanders. Eldritch Diggory is affiliated with Hufflepuff and was the first minister to support Aurors inside the ministry. Poppy ...

Nearly seven years later, on Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid designated 2018 CN41. The MPC said the asteroid was ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

When it came within less than 240,000 km (150,000 miles) of Earth, which is closer than the orbit of the Moon, the object sparked concerns that it might collide with the planet. However the Minor ...

is the most egg-shaped and tilted), the paths of the four outer giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — show minor deviations from the ideal orbits. Yet explaining these niggling ...

Get ready for a parade of planets this winter. During the month of January, sky gazers will be able to see four planets in one view — and come February, the parade will only expand. NASA says ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.

They also checked to see if any of those dips in light curves might have been caused by second planets orbiting the same star but came up empty-handed. While seven additional candidate exoplanets ...