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A new study warns that astronomers measuring the rotation of distant exoplanets may often be measuring atmospheric winds instead, since the clouds of Venus circle the planet roughly 60 times faster than Venus itself actu...

New research shows that extreme space weather can significantly raise radiation exposure on commercial flights and increase electronic faults in aircraft systems. A severe 1956 scale solar storm could expose passengers t...

NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a patch of ground.

In brightest day, in blackest night, no Lanterns character shall escape our sight!

A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate-the hypothetical "dark photon"-would not have heated the early universe as previously thought. The finding opens a vas...

On Episode 223 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Dale Skran are joined by Dr. Scott Pace to discuss the future of exploration on the Moon.

Neptune's moon and ring system stand out among the giant planets because of the strange imbalance between its one very large moon and its many tiny moons. Its largest moon, Triton, makes up more than 99% of the mass ...

Get everything between 10x and 22x with Nikons new Action Zoom 10-22x50 binoculars

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