If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

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When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

Credit: Space Solar/Cover Images A British startup aims to provide Iceland with solar power from space by 2030, marking what could be the world’s first demonstration of this innovative renewable ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

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The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...