Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

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The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

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The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of ...