The Earth’s orbit around the Sun is slightly elliptical, causing our planet’s distance from the Sun to change throughout the ...

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Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Nasa’s Voyager 1 probe will reach a historic distance of one light-day from Earth in 2026. This milestone means radio signals ...

The rotation is slowing down due to tidal friction from the Moon, lengthening the day by approximately 1.7 milliseconds per ...

DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again. Voyager 1’s four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now - showing it is ...

Research evaluates the likelihood of debris from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reaching Earth, analyzing gas, dust and larger ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are a “mirror image” of the Earth and the sun. Experts from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in ...

HONOLULU (KHON) — Only five full months have gone by this year, and already it feels like an eternity separates the reality we live in now from the one we knew at the end of 2019. On top of everything ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...