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Planets are about as scarce as they can be in our summer evening sky. Earth is the only one that’s visible as darkness falls. Just look down instead of up. All of the major planets that are visible to ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

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Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical?

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Natasha Verma to unlock big cosmic questions with wit and clarity: Have aliens visited Earth? Will the universe ever stop expanding? Why does "Manhattanhenge" ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...