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Friday, June 5Standing some 50° high in the south by 10 P.M. local daylight time, M5 is...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of...
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Astronomers have developed a technique that allows them to detect cloud cycles on distant exoplanets. Using data from...
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Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime. Their first direct detection in 2015 marked a revolutionary moment...
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Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world’s largest natural source of methane....
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Euclid space telescope observations of ancient globular cluster NGC 6397 reveal a subtle gap in brightness distribution...
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When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and...
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New research shows how unmagnetized worlds like Mars can still deflect some of the Sun’s solar wind....
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A deep partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28, 2026, will be visible in North America and will...
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Marco Wong, taken from Sussex, U.K. The Milky Way’s bright star fields and dense dust lanes arch...
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An artist’s rendering of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander on the surface of the...
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More than 50 new Starlink satellites are now in orbit after launches from California and Florida.
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last...
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The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and “weighed” by an international team...
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Scientists using the Euclid space telescope found a red-dwarf brightness “gap” in the population of a globular...
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By the power of… what the hell is that? If you thought the patrons of the Mos...
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Electrons around Jupiter have been caught in the process of being accelerated, revealing a potentially unified mechanism...
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A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the...
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As climate change alters the temperatures of animal habitats, it seems natural that endotherms, warm-blooded animals, would...