Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

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On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun, more than 30 times farther away than Earth. It takes more than four hours for sunlight to reach Neptune.

An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday ... ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS 2025 BS4 is due to fly past our planet at a distance of about 511,000 miles, roughly ...

The first-ever TV show in the sci-fi franchise is set to channel the horror vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien as the terrifying xenomorphs land on planet Earth ... As one of our most anticipated ...

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North Texans are in for a celestial treat: This month and until late February, six planets in our solar system will be in alignment in the night sky. A planetary alignment, or as it’s known ...

On February 28, all seven planets in our solar system—Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars—will be visible in the night sky! Although planets aligning like this happens ...

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the ... the Earth's surface, contain close to 20 million tons of gold. From our morning ...

The climax took place mid-January, when the two planets appeared to be just "a couple of finger widths' distance apart" from Earth's perspective, NASA said. (Though in reality, there were hundreds ...