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The Yerkes Future Foundation officially owns the historic Yerkes Observatory glass plates, securing a vital link between ...
Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.
A massive explosion created a stellar jet bubble that collided with its own star's protoplanetary disk, revealing a harsher, more chaotic environment for planet formation ...
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.
Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...
Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...
The only person to fly to the Moon twice but never trod its surface had some amazing stories to tell. Originally published ...
Proba-3 creates artificial solar eclipse to study Sun's corona. Two ESA satellites fly in precise formation to reveal the sun ...
8. Speaking of sunlight, it’s composed of approximately 40 percent light, 50 percent heat, and 10 percent ultraviolet ...
Mountain ranges, volcanic plains, and lots of craters make the Moon a target you’ll return to again and again.