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Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

but it is slightly angled upwards and a bit larger than the solar panels on Casio’s other design-focused models. The company says the new model will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the very ...

Having an early-warning system for solar flares could help us protect infrastructure and technology here on Earth as well as astronauts in space from the effects of the high-energy solar radiation.

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Black holes are mysterious by design. A black hole's outer boundary ... We're serious about this: Uranus is a unique and strange solar system planet because, unlike all the other worlds in our ...