From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer ...
The most obviously exciting space event for the coming year is the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which could occur as ...
Digital Twin of the Ocean is a continuously updated virtual counterpart of the real ocean that exchanges data in real time ...
Tim Herron and the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists group have been capturing portraits for many years, growing their ...
A SOYUZ 2.1b rocket successfully placed 52 satellites into low Earth orbit on Dec. 28 after lifting off from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, completing one of the most technically complex rideshare ...
China's factory activity returned to marginal expansion in December, as stronger production and domestic demand offset a ...
Scientists know a surprising amount of information about Southern Resident Killer Whales, but once the whales leave their ...
Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...
A large number of lobster carcasses have washed ashore in recent days at San Onofre State Beach. While state officials are ...
Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts ...
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Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...