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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Congress of the threat China poses to the Indo-Pacific in an address to a joint meeting of both houses during his state visit on Thursday. India has been courted by the United States, across…

Brown dwarfs—celestial objects that fall between stars and planets—are shown in this illustration with a range of temperatures, from hottest (left) to coldest…

COLUMBIA, Md., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern astronomy relies on understanding the life cycle of molecular material, and though astronomers understand much of the process, there are a lot of missing pieces. By studying six hydride…

It's been clear since the start of President Joe Biden's term the midterms would likely be ugly. After all, he began his presidency with extremely narrow majorities in the House and Senate. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin scrambled the Biden…

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Peg Yates in Woodbridge, Virginia, captured this impressive view at 8:27 a.m. on April 1, 2022. Peg wrote: “Out running errands and this is what greeted me. I have several photos of these clouds.”…

An artist’s illustration of the hot Jupiter with a wacky weather pattern.Illustration: Engine House VFXNew observations of the football-shaped exoplanet known as WASP-121b have revealed clues to its atmosphere and weather. Astronomers…

In the pantheon of weird exoplanets, one of the strangest has to be WASP-121 b. It’s so close to its star that not only is its surface temperature estimated to be up to an unimaginable 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit, but gravitational…

There are few bigger questions than how life first got started on Earth, but trying to put in the detective work almost 4 billion years after the event is understandably hard going for scientists. Now it looks as though we might have…

QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: Tonight: Mostly cloudy, still fair, low 29Friday: Mostly cloudy, high 36Saturday: Mostly cloudy, high 29Sunday: Mixed clouds, wet snow to snow later, high 37Monday: Mostly cloudy, high 31…

Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that gave rise to the first subatomic particles and the laws of physics as we know them.About 370,000 years later, hydrogen had formed, the building block of…