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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.
Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...
Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...
JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process ...
[Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, March 19, 2025] — Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan was awarded the prestigious Hawking Medal for Science Communication at the Starmus Festival, sharing the ...
Questions remain about the Shift4 CEO and civilian astronaut’s priorities for the space agency, who recently laid out his ...
In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to ...
The photo of a 9.5-light-year-long cloud within the Eagle Nebula celebrates the space telescope’s upcoming 35th birthday.
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 ...
We’ve wondered what powered the Sun for centuries. Early guesses included meteor showers, chemical combustion, and ...
Skyrocketing tariffs on China are rippling through the astronomy industry. If they hold, some fear deeper wounds to the ...
These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.