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Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.
Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.
Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible close to the ringed world today, along with several other of the planet’s brighter moons.
August’s Full Sturgeon Moon shines brightly in the sky tonight, showing off the rayed crater Tycho in the south.
Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...
Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...
The only person to fly to the Moon twice but never trod its surface had some amazing stories to tell. Originally published ...
Mountain ranges, volcanic plains, and lots of craters make the Moon a target you’ll return to again and again.
8. Speaking of sunlight, it’s composed of approximately 40 percent light, 50 percent heat, and 10 percent ultraviolet ...
Jim Lovell, the heroic commander of Apollo 13, was a part of several historic NASA missions and left an enduring legacy of ...
August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
NASA is fast-tracking plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030 as a strategic imperative to prevent ...