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Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth
IFLScience· 4 hours agoAs the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 1 day agoAstronomers scrutinizing planets outside our solar system (called exoplanets) for potential signs of life gather data while those planets transit their ...
Hypervelocity Star Spotted Racing Through the Milky Way at 1.3 Million MPH
SciTechDaily· 24 hours agoFound by the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, this hypervelocity L subdwarf star...
Another Planetary Parade Starts on Aug. 23: Spot 6 Planets in the Sky at Once
CNET· 5 hours agoDid you miss the June 3 planet parade, when six planets lined up in the sky? In August, stargazers...
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNew research suggests stars in the Milky Way give off infrared heat expected from Dyson spheres,...
See the impacts an epic solar storm had on the Red Planet
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoThe Sun has been active as of late as the giant star is in a period of peak activity known as the...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThese include faint stars with masses lower than that of the sun. This gives astronomers a new...
Scientists find a surprise ingredient in exoplanet cake mix — sulfur dioxide
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoYet, GJ 3470b orbits at a distance of just 5.3 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) from its star....
Coming in Hot — NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets - NASA
NASA· 2 days agoThis graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that...
Father’s Day: For Samuel, 11, who answers the question, Who needs A.I.?
Gannett via AOL· 7 hours ago“Wow,” I said, impressed. “That’s hard to believe.” He also said the declassification of the planet...