Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made ...

Tamás, 18, who posts to Reddit under the username u/Serious_Comfortable3, took to the r/Fossils sub on March 10, where he shared a photo of what initially looked to be an enormous black tooth, as big ...

The NSW government has ruled out setting aside three former WestConnex tunnelling sites in inner-city Sydney for social housing. The prize parcels of government-owned land are at the centre of a ...

TIL Creatives Earth and Venus close together, illuminated by the sun against a backdrop of stars, galaxies, and nebulae. Skywatchers looking to catch a glimpse of Venus's transit between Earth and the ...

According to a recent study, the Earth's inner core, that is a solid ball of iron and nickel, is slowing down in relation to the planet's surface. The same was confirmed by USC scientists ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...

In this collection of trivia bits, you'll find interesting facts on how the observation got its start, the founders of the annual holiday, along with other details about the planet, climate and ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

A planetary retrograde occurs when a planet appears to move backward in ... and past-life patterns. Lesson: Embrace inner transformation, release control, and confront deep-seated fears.

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

“We knew Webb could measure colors of the outer planets in directly imaged systems,” added Rémi Soummer, director of STScI’s Russell B. Makidon Optics Lab and former lead for Webb coronagraph ...

The four planets are classified as sub-Earths because each one is about 19% to 34% the mass of Earth, according to new research. “It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic ...