What Is an Exoplanet? A Brief Explainer
Explore the world of exoplanets—distant planets that captivate scientists. Visit ExtremeTech to learn what makes them so ...
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Winter solstice 2024 brings shortest day of the year to Northern Hemisphere today
The winter solstice is today, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere.
Flat Earther Expedition to Antartica Bolsters Case That Our Planet Is Round
A team of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists recently traveled to Antarctica in the hopes of proving—once and for all—that our ...
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Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets
The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...
This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...
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NASA's solar probe is about to fly closer to the sun than any human-made object ever
During periods of intense space weather, the sun can unleash giant solar flares and streams of charged particles, known as ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like winter; solstice is here
As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle. For most of the year, the Earth’s axis is tilted either toward ...
Uh-oh: The final Mercury retrograde of 2024 is here. Expect delays, technical issues.
In astronomy, what does retrograde mean? And what connection does it have to astrology? We explain how planets move across ...