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The alien bounty hunter going after Din Djarin and Grogu in the new Star Wars movie might...
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A planet that is about the size of Saturn, but with a temperature more like Earth’s, has...
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Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them....
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Lunar Outpost has unveiled designs for a new Pegasus moon rover for a 2028 launch — but...
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It’s getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX’s Starlink and other...
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Dust scatters light, absorbs light, re-emits light, and ruins everything. It’s why our maps of the Milky...
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian...
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For the July 2026 issue of Astronomy, we’re bringing you our first ever digital-only issue, with all...
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With May's new moon fading and summer twilight looming, now is the time to plan a dark-sky...
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In 1878, Williamina Fleming immigrated to Boston from Scotland with her husband – but he abandoned her...
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Neutrinos, the second most common fundamental particles in the universe, are notoriously difficult to detect. So far...
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It’s a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the moon...
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TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000...
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Shortly after stage separation on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the payload fairing halves that encapsulated the 29...
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Astronomers have identified a possible new member of one of astronomy’s strangest classes of objects: Odd radio...
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Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and colonizing...
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There's a lot riding on the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket — including some of...
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Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set for the debut launch of its latest Starship iteration on Thursday, testing...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 20: The Moon...