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Through a $427,561 award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), CSU Professor Elliott Horch is expanding Southern Connecticut State University’s role in astronomical research through an ...

The crater, named after geologist and lunar surface expert Tom McGetchin, spans more than two football fields wide ...

The number of rocky extrasolar planets being discovered continues to increase, but so too does the apparent diversity of such worlds.

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

JAXA will launch its MMX spacecraft on Oct. 19, carrying instruments to collect Phobos regolith that contains Martian surface ejecta -- humanity’s only confirmed near-term path to physical Martian mat ...

A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter stretch of active railway near the village of Buttes, 48 solar panels sit ...

JAKARTA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated 14 solar power plant projects on Tuesday with a ‌combined capacity of 5.3 gigawatts, part of the country's goal to add 100 ...

NASA's PUNCH satellite constellation has demonstrated something space weather scientists have been working toward for decades: the ability to predict when a solar storm will strike Earth to within 30 ...

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