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From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research touch nearly every aspect of ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Abstract: Wind energy and solar energy, as complementary renewable energy, combined with hydrogen production technology from electrolyzed water, provide a new way to build a green and low-carbon ...

Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about a whole new way to see our cosmic neighborhood. Imagine having a personal planetarium right on your device, letting you zoom in on Jupiter ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...