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Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the bri...
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came fro...
My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.
Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot ...
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astron...
A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with a...
Monster star gains magnetic personality following ...
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with an...
A car-sized asteroid will pass really, really clos...
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the d...
'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May...
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our...
Gravitational waves reveal black hole and neutron ...
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky...
Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching...
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two anc...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew i...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyon...
Space weather can make it hard to predict satellit...
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad spac...
Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scie...
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circul...
Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the ...
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
SpaceX to launch advanced weather satellite for US...
SpaceX will launch a mission for the U.S. Space Force this morning (April 11), sending aloft an adva...
Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings i...
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fl...
Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the fie...
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the...
See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Sa...
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside ...
The moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a gia...
