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It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

Something Massive Collided in Deep Space and Earth Felt the Aftershock Grizzly bear attack in British Columbia seriously ...

It’s only taken a few hundred years, but the “Spice Islands” region of eastern Indonesia — now known as the Maluku Islands — is once again attracting attention.

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Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in River Grove has a full slate of holiday programming that’s fun and ...

As we dive into the sprint to the end of the year, filled with festive, social, buoyant moments shared with our nearest and ...

The new moon in Scorpio peaks on November 20, 2025 at 1:47 a.m. Eastern Time at 28°11 Scorpio. A new moon occurs when the ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.