"We know where every bush is, and every tree," says Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.

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Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

A team of astronomers including professor Jane Huang have shown that extreme astrophysical environments can foster new ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

K2-360 b has a radius just shy of 1.6 times that of Earth, giving it a volume four times as large. Its mass, though, is 7.7 ...

Unlike Earth’s Moon, this mini-moon is a temporary visitor from deep space, poised to return to its solar ... simulation ...

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

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Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

Our solar system ... professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.