Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

在国家自然科学基金项目（批准号：12288102）资助下，中国科学院云南天文台郭建恒研究员创新性地提出一种有效判断低质量行星富氢大气逃逸机制和物理现象的新方法，这为包括类地行星的低质量行星族群在哪个阶级段使用什么样的大气逃逸驱动机制指明了路径。研究成 ...

Nov. 11, 2024 — Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

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By Karen Taylor Based on ancient wisdom, the Chinese year is split into 24 segments, or solar terms, going beyond the concept ...

Three stood out by their large stellar content. “Finding three such massive beasts among the sample poses a tantalising ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...