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The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Earth is not a still point in space, but a planet hurtling through the cosmos at incredible speeds. This video breaks down the complex layers of our motion: the 66,000 mph orbit around the sun, the ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

The Geminids peak when the moon is 30 percent full, according to the International Meteor Organization. To get a hint at when ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

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Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...