Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

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An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

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A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...