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Just ask the wind in the trees -- the mighty oak grows to sway. This is why it still stands through hundreds of years of fair days and storms that would snap the unbendable things. And today, as a ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it challenges everything we know about how the solar system formed. Trump wants to ...

In September, NASA announced that the threat of solar storms is reaching a new high, noting that the activities on the Sun's surface have intensified in the past decade. Solar storms can lead to some ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

That store and other soon-to-be-completed stores in Minnesota will carry the Kwik Trip name. New North Dakota stores will carry the Kwik Star badge, a sister brand to Kwik Trip. The new Kwik Trip ...

For bringing quantum effects to a scale once thought impossible, three physicists have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated the ...

A new model from a Florida Tech professor suggests how planets are formed may determine if they have water. The study proposes that some planets may be "born dry" because they lack a way to attract ...

Deep beneath its icy crust, Ceres could hide a briny ocean, chemical building blocks, and even traces of past activity. A return mission may unlock secrets that could rewrite what we know about ...

NASA's Perseverance rover took this selfie in May 2025. The Navcam used to capture the apparent comet images is located just below the large white camera at the top of the mast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...