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Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.
See the brilliant planet before dawn, low in the eastern sky before dawn and brighter than anything else in the sky, save the Sun and Moon.
The photo of a 9.5-light-year-long cloud within the Eagle Nebula celebrates the space telescope’s upcoming 35th birthday.
The company is developing a commercial replacement for the ISS, currently planned to be retired at the end of the decade.
The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...
Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies, standing prominently in Taurus in the west as darkness falls. Located between the two horns of Taurus the Bull and above its red giant eye, Aldebaran ...
Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered ...
NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four Earth-orbiting satellites with the goal of studying how the Sun’s ...
Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...
The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.