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Nebulous age In the Ask Astro column of the April 2026 issue is a photograph of planetary...
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In the early 1960s, Alexander Rodgers, Colin Campbell, and John Whiteoak compiled a catalog of emission nebulae...
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Sixty-six million years ago, the six-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life...
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China's Chang'e-8 moon lander mission scheduled for 2029 could send Africa's first space exploration mission to the...
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The total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851 is important for two reasons. First, English amateur astronomer...
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More than 20 years after NASA’s Spirit rover landed on Mars, a researcher from Edith Cowan University...
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NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test...
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Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to...
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Long before a human ever sets foot on the Red Planet, we already know how hard the...
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Each time the moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse—darkening daytime skies and briefly...
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Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in...
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As water shot into an open stock tank atop a high-country mesa, a trickle soaked the dusty...
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Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists...
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An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu...
Jupiter’s moon, Io, is the most volcanically active planetary body in the solar system, boasting hundreds of...
The samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission from the far side of the Moon reveal that the...
The 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals,...
Satellite operators have welcomed the prospect of reaping more than $6 billion for quickly clearing upper C-band...