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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 11: Egeria moves...
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Mission Highlight: Starship Flight 12 SpaceX is targeting Friday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. EST for the...
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Winter hibernation is officially over. Spring has arrived. Warmer nights make this a great time to pull...
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Since the universe was very small right after the Big Bang and yet it contained the same...
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After the end of World War II, the U.S. military searched for a location for a new...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 10: Can you...
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Born May 10, 1900, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was also the first person to discover that stars are primarily...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 9: Look the...
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On Dr. Jane Goodall’s birthday, April 3, the STARMUS Festival proudly unveiled the design of the Jane...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 8: Face-on spiral...
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We already knew interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from somewhere far beyond our solar system. Now scientists have...
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NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to...
When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out...
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Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn...
NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to...
Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more...
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The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun...
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In September 2012, Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok discovered Comet C/2012 S1; as they were...
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It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.