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For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But ...

Nigel Morris (pictured) formerly worked for BP Solar. Image: Smart Energy Council. Industry veteran Nigel Morris, chief strategy officer at Australia’s Smart Energy Council, charts the country’s ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama’s prison system is the subject of a new HBO documentary set to debut on Friday. The documentary, called “The Alabama Solution,” was directed and produced by ...