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A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.
The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...
NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous ...
Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.
A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add more to it - with this new world.
One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...