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Ileana Chinnici, an astronomer affiliated with the Vatican Observatory, is one of the editors of the new book Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century: Studies in Honour of Paolo ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar ...

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Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015, it has changed how scientists think about ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...

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Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to look to the sky in 2026. The new year kicks off with the full wolf moon on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars ...