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But did you know that rainbows are a lot more than just pretty, colorful arches? Sure, there may not actually be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow (or at least we haven't found one yet), but ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Mercury: The smallest and innermost planet in our solar system. It's a rocky, cratered world with a thin atmosphere. Venus: Often called Earth's "twin" due to its similar size and mass, Venus has a ...

Here's how to spot it and why it happens. The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations ...

Often seen on Earth, the effect consists of concentric, colorful rings of light ... reason no glory has been seen before outside our Solar System — it requires very peculiar conditions ...

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their way over to or already be in our stellar neighborhood. To know what to ...

An art installation's bold and colorful floral patterns on a West Texas energy storage facility are a “nod to biological ...

The two entities surveyed all providers of plug-in solar systems in Germany and 58 of 156 active market participants took part. The market shows what they define as a colorful picture of small and ...

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