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Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

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But both time and money are in short supply. As Pluto is the most distant of the nine planets, its 248-year orbit around the Sun is lengthy compared with human timescales.

Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

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A free-to-play robot battler, a bird farming sim and a few outer space games are among July 2025's first PC releases.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...