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The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations, known for its significant achievements in astronomy and mathematics. This includes accurate calendars ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is barreling toward its closest point to the sun as perihelion looms on Oct. 29. How different will it look when it reappears on the other side?

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...