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For decades, weve dreamed of visiting other star systems. Theres just one problem – theyre so far away, with conventional spaceflight it would take tens of thousands of years to reach even the closest one.

This month, two sounding rockets will launch from Australia, carrying experiments to determine if the ultraviolet light emitted by the stars of the Alpha

During the pandemic, I developed a spiritual ritual of jogging every morning at sunrise for three miles near my home, in the company of colorful flowers, butterflies, birds, wild turkeys, rabbits and…

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Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed a giant comet set to approach Earth this July that could be more easily seen using a telescope. The cosmic event comes amid a new study that found a roaming star could one day cause tens of millions of comet to rain down in our Solar System.

A light year is a simple form of measurement. One light year is equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometres). 

Roaming Star Could Rain Millions of Comets Down on Earth in Future Doomsday

Forget everything you thought you knew about the Oscar-winning alien comedy franchise, which premiered 25 years ago.

In over a million years, the star Gliese 710 will reach the edge of our Solar System, disturbing comets in the Oort Cloud. That could be bad news for Earth.