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We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...
The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?
Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...
A new framework urges leaders to see the world as PLUTO: polarized, liquid, unilateral, tense and omnirelational, and to ...
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.
Once again, Elon Musk is front-page news across the world - but this time, the disruption is not about electric cars or space ...
Swiss plane manufacturer Pilatus has introduced the new PC-12 PRO model. In this video, I flew with test pilot Patrick over ...
Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...
How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...
The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...