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How Gaia revealed the Milky Way
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...
There was a lot to tie up after five seasons and nearly 10 years, and the show gave itself another two hours to do it. Here ...
With missions stretching from the Moon to Mercury and Mars, 2026 will mark the shift from experimental demonstrations to ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is reshaping planetary defence, with its unusual "anti-tail" and unexplained non-gravitational ...
From equal days to extreme daylight shifts, 2026’s solstices and equinoxes mark Earth’s precise seasonal turning points, ...
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...
Last Friday, the interstellar comet designated 3I/ATLAS completed its closest approach to Earth without crashing into us or depositing an invading armada.
The auroras are one of the most mesmerising naturally occurring phenomenon in the sky. These wonders are like those pots of ...
Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passes Earth, stunning scientists with a million-kilometre anti-tail and prompting reflections on ...
Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...
On Dec. 20, 2015, a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, China, toppled dozens of buildings and killed 73 people.
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