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When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does...
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How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: “Shoot for the moon,” but also, “Don’t...
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Maverick director Nicolas Roeg delivered a surreal sci-fi classic in 1976 that still resonates today.
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One of the most important eclipses in history happened in 1919. This particular eclipse cut a path...
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Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden supermassive black hole inside the famous Antennae galaxies NGC 4038/4039, a...
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Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
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New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had...
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Every byte of data a spacecraft collects, every image, every reading, every scientific measurement has to survive...
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We live in a golden age of astronomical imaging. Telescopes are capturing billions of galaxy images, painting...
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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have found a new way to measure the mass...
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Katelyn Beecroft from London, Ontario, Canada The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) lies roughly 5,000 light-years away...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 28: Scorpius holds...
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space...
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Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 29An hour after sunset...
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Blue Origin's fourth New Glenn rocket exploded during a prelaunch engine test on Thursday night (May 28)....
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With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install...
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The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe....
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Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a...
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SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to give us the ability to look at one...