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If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...
Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...
The easiest way to time travel is more simple than you realise - and it doesn't involve any fancy equipment, say scientists.
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Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...
From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.
Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...
Californians can glimpse up to 15 meteors each hour under cloudless skies while the Lyrid meteor shower is underway. The ...
Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this ...
A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...
April skies feature close planet pairings, a bright meteor shower, and stunning views of the ancient star cluster M3.