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Searing across the night sky, a meteor puts on a spectacular show above Arizona's Kitt Peak National...
SpaceX will sell its shares for $135 apiece during its IPO, yielding a valuation of $1.77 trillion.
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On June 5, 1819, British mathematician and astronomer John C. Adams was born in Cornwall. The first...
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In May and June of most years, NASA satellites typically begin to detect large numbers of wildland...
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As California’s population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living...
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Night shining noctilucent clouds could brighten the sky before dawn and after sunset from tonight!
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The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 4: Jupiter passes...
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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.