Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
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Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...
New moons occur when the moon is positioned between the Earth and the sun, meaning its shadowed side faces us and we get a moonless night. But, it does create opportunities for stargazing.
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Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...
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