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Astronomers Think They've Found a Reliable Biosignature...

The search for life has become one of the holy grails of science. With the incre...

China's Flagship Space Telescope Launches in 2027. Here...

The China Space Station Telescope, scheduled for a 2027 launch, will offer astro...

What's the Deadliest Part of a Supernova Explosion?

From far enough away, most supernovas are benign. But the thing you have to watc...

One Instrument on the Failed Lunar Lander Did a Little ...

Even tipped over onto its side, the Odysseus Lunar Lander was able to do some sc...

Exploding Stars May Have Caused Two of Earth's Mass Ext...

Supernova explosions are powerful enough to cause mass extinctions if they're cl...

A New Company Plans to Prospect the Moon

Helium-3 (He-3) on the Moon's surface has drawn attention for decades. In 1939, ...

Giant Exoplanets Have Elliptical Orbits. Smaller Planet...

We are so familiar with our solar system that we often presume it is generally h...

Hera Swings Past Mars, Sees Deimos From a New Angle

Gravitational slingshots are now a common part of space missions where the traje...

What Will the Betelgeuse Supernova Be Like - And Will I...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it’s not...

Pallas Has a Very Blue Family

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from o...

JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 2: The Distant Universe

Earlier this week, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announced the s...

A Mars Chopper Mission Over Glaciers and Canyons

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on ano...

New Horizons Needs a New Flyby Target. Vera Rubin Can H...

Exploration of the outer Solar System may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin...

Did Water or Lava Cause that Channel? The Answer is in ...

Did Water or Lava Cause that Channel? The Answer is in How it Bends

Watching the Power of Supermassive Black Holes With X-r...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astr...

This is a Lunar Eclipse, Seen from the Moon!

Thursday brought with it a total lunar eclipse for parts of the world that could...

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