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The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

American space agency NASA says it has begun installing the telescope assembly in the space observatory that will become ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

A cosmic clash of epic proportions is about to play out in Smells Like a Mushroom on Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

"This discovery was surprising, as it stands out in stark contrast to the atmospheres of rocky planets in our own solar ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies.