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Welcome to Edition 7.48 of the Rocket Report! The shock of last week's public spat between President Donald Trump and SpaceX ...
With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...
W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...
A satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured the first ever images of the sun's south pole.
Despite the offset sunrise and sunset times, the summer solstice is still the longest day of the year in terms of total ...
A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...
Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...
New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.
Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded a $1.2 billion contract on May 29 through a firm, fixed-price other transaction authority ...
Solar storms have the potential to cause catastrophic damage. One that occurred around the end of October 2003 (now called ...