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Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

Photoshop CC 2022 tutorial showing how to create an outer space scene of the planet, Jupiter. Jupiter texture map: <a href=" ...

Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...