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Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...
VOX Cape Town, led by UCT’s Dr John Woodland and Dr Kyle Paulssen, celebrated 10 years of performances with an immersive ...
Early observations of the planets revealed worlds far different from Earth, demonstrating that the universe was far more ...
As the month wears on, Jupiter and Venus will move apart from each other. One more date to keep in mind will be Aug. 20. Although Venus and Jupiter will now be eight degrees apart, the slender ...
Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...
This object is the first confirmed body that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune completes.
Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it was a star. Sir William Herschel gets the credit for identifying it as a ...
The other object is 2014 NX 65, which is definitely not resonant with Uranus but might have an inner 3:2 resonance with ...
For decades, Uranus has held the title of the coldest planet in the solar system, with atmospheric temperatures plunging to ...
The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...
A NEW Earth-sized planet has been discovered in a faraway constellation – and it would kill any astronaut who dare travel ...