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NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero ...

Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in St...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is ess...

Pluto and Charon May Have Formed in a “Kiss-and-Capture”

Pluto and Charon may have formed differently than we thought The post Pluto and ...

See January's "Planet Parade," plus Comet ATLAS Now Vis...

With lots of planets and a bright comet vying for our attention, January is an e...

The Sky This Week from January 10 to 17: Mars reaches o...

Friday, January 10The waxing gibbous Moon passes 5° north of Jupiter in Taurus a...

The Sky This Week from January 3 to 10: Earth’s closest...

Friday, January 3Asteroid 14 Irene reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EST within north...

The Sky This Week from December 27 to January 3: The Qu...

Friday, December 27By 8 P.M. local time, Gemini is well above the eastern horizo...

The Sky This Week from December 20 to 27: Welcome the w...

Friday, December 20Now that the evening sky is Moon-free, it’s time to aim for f...

The Sky This Week from December 13 to 20: 2024’s last F...

Friday, December 13The bright gibbous Moon passes 4° north of Uranus at 5 A.M. E...

NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 P...

On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico throu...

Earth in Far-Ultraviolet

On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 miss...

How to Debate a Flat-Earther

The problem with debating a flat-Earther is that they didn’t arrive at their con...

LIGO Has Detected Unusual Black Holes Merging, But they...

The traditional theory of black hole formation seems to struggle to explain how ...

Gravitational Waves Could Give Us Insights into Fast Ra...

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fr...

Can a New DNA Database Help Save This Incredible Sea Tu...

The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been used for luxury items for centu...

As We Explore the Solar System, Radiation Will Be One o...

The Sun can kill. Until Earth developed its ozone layer hundreds of millions of ...

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