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SpaceX launched 24 more satellites for its Starlink network on Saturday (July 25), a day after demonstrating...
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By analyzing data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and conducting new radial velocity measurements, U.K....
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On July 28, 1851, the first-ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian...
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Venus beside the International Space Station as captured by photographer A.J. Smadi from Edmonds, Washington on July...
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The sky is filled with great objects for observers. With today’s equipment and the sophistication of knowledge...
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Nebulous age In the Ask Astro column of the April 2026 issue is a photograph of planetary...
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In the early 1960s, Alexander Rodgers, Colin Campbell, and John Whiteoak compiled a catalog of emission nebulae...
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Sixty-six million years ago, the six-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life...
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China's Chang'e-8 moon lander mission scheduled for 2029 could send Africa's first space exploration mission to the...
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The total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851 is important for two reasons. First, English amateur astronomer...
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More than 20 years after NASA’s Spirit rover landed on Mars, a researcher from Edith Cowan University...
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NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test...
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Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to...
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Long before a human ever sets foot on the Red Planet, we already know how hard the...
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Each time the moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse—darkening daytime skies and briefly...
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Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in...
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As water shot into an open stock tank atop a high-country mesa, a trickle soaked the dusty...
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Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists...
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An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu...