A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...
Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.
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A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...
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