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For millennia, the way we found our way home has been using the stars. The tech we have sent towards those stars also uses ...
Made from over 1,100 images captured by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the video begins with a close-up of two galaxies ...
And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt On April 7, 2016, the team running NASA’s New Horizons mission were ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...
Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...
The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.
The Science on Main initiative group is seeking feedback from the community on what to add to the planned Solar System Walk ...
In a stunning peek into how planets are born, astronomers caught millimeter-sized dust grains clinging to the windy walls of ...
Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...