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📷: Greg Meyer from Phoenix, Arizona The Antenna Galaxies (NGC 4038/9; at left) in Corvus are one...
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Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake...
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Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was...
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About 63 hours after its launch, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. The...
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Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just raised $500 million...
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What does SpaceX's coming IPO mean for the company, investors and markets in general?
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New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life...
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A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system...
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When the double boom rang out in New England over the weekend, shaking homes and sending pets...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 1: Mercury at...
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The “soil” blanketing the moon’s surface isn’t actually soil. It’s a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered...
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The dwarf planet Ceres has a surface that seems to get more perplexing with each new study....
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Blue Moons are known for the folklore surrounding their appearance in the skies. But the real thing...
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As another heavy sargassum season unfolds, many beachgoers are asking the same question: Is it safe to...
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What’s launching this week Early this morning, Monday, June 1, the state owned China Aerospace Science and...
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The JWST found an abundance of overmassive black holes at high redshifts, pushing the limits of black...
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How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves...
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Multi-billion dollar space telescope programs aren’t only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature “lies, damn lies,...
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3D simulations reveal how shockwaves from stellar explosions and winds may carve hub-and-spoke structures in molecular clouds,...
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Conspiracy theories, print media, and James (sorry, Jimmy) Bond collide in an all-too-brief extension of Mulder and...