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While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

The iconic quiz show aired its first episode in 1972, with its trophy seen as a prestigious and hard-earned honour.

The quote is by English author and historian Caroline Playne reflecting on the summer of 1914. The Great War saw astounding ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Moon’s precursor planet, Theia, disappeared billions ago, leaving scientists no direct chemical evidence to support the hypothesis. Now a team of astromers in France, Germany and the United States ...

The mystery of the Earth and Moon’s similarity Early models of the Moon’s formation predicted that the Moon should mostly consist of Theia’s material. But scientists noticed a puzzle: Earth and the ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

On 2 December 1995, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space—on what was supposed to be a ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...