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Our solar system’s largest planet stands just north of Zeta Tau, the tip of one of Taurus the Bull’s two horns.
Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...
JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.
Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...
The Coma Cluster is a rich group of galaxies visible in Coma Berenices, high in the southern sky late this evening.
Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.
The main-belt asteroid 3 Juno reached opposition yesterday afternoon, meaning it now lies directly opposite the Sun in our ...
A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...
The Moon could be the proving ground for humanity’s evolution, however, this new frontier raises complex legal questions.
Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...
A Full Flower Moon shines in the sky tonight from sunset to sunrise. This month's Full Moon appears smaller than usual, just ...
The astronomer Halton C. Arp (1927–2013) was a very well-known researcher of galaxies and other distant objects. He is ...