“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

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In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

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Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

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Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

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The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...