Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made ...

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(NASA via AP) Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making ... Neptune, Venus, and Saturn. FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as ...

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Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets ... the crescent moon shines alongside Mercury, Venus and Saturn. And for a simple but striking way to test your ...

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...

Dusk falls in Lake Tekapo on the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The last tourist bus has left for Christchurch and the ...

Observing such an impact via telescopes could provide rare data to study celestial mechanics and crater formation. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is a near-Earth object classified as an Apollo-type asteroid, first ...