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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.
We tend to think of the universe as roughly uniform, with galaxies scattered in every…
A planet nearly 700 light-years away has mineral clouds that form every morning and…
A probe called Cassini spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn, flew through the plumes of…
NASA strapped a helmet called the Apollo Light Flash Moving Emulsion Detector around…
The Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA in 2018, has flown closer to the Sun than any…
When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in July of 2015 after a…
James Webb has found evidence for thick water-ice clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab, one of the…
In March 2025, Australia's new SKA-Low telescope photographed 85 galaxies using just…
Two enormous structures — the Giant Arc and the Big Ring — appear in the same region of…
We think of astronauts as floating in zero gravity, but the International Space Station…