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When deep-sky observers contemplate the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy, they immediately...
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Run Hawking’s machinery and out pops something startling: the most likely universe looks an awful lot like...
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SpaceX is now targeting a Friday, May 22, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3...
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This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the western sky on...
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The Traveling Salesman is a classic problem in mathematics that requires a solution to the most efficient...
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Astronomers may have found an explanation for one of the biggest mysteries revealed by the James Webb...
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Twice a year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan's street grid, creating one of New York...
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On May 18, 1976, the visitors center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, opened...
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this panorama of an area nicknamed “Arbot”...
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Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we've known for...
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These days, one would be forgiven for forgetting that SpaceX is, at its core, a rocket company....
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Director James Cameron's third chapter in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise lands June 24
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The space industry's plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-altitude air...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 17: Glimpse the...
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When it comes to space debris, what goes up is coming down more often—and not safely.
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Astronomers have tracked a dramatic “changing-look” active galactic nucleus (AGN) whose central supermassive black hole appeared to...
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Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas...
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Hundreds of companies raised a combined $70 billion by selling shares to the public in the United...