See a stunning star cluster in an enormous 80-million-pixel image
A glorious, colorful image captured by a telescope in Chile shows the bright glow of star cluster RCW 38, where young stars are being born.
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40 cosmic questions and answers
These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...
Earth’s Water Mystery Deepens With New Meteorite Evidence
Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...
Interstellar visitors: Material from Alpha Centauri may already be here
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
A Meteor Slammed Into Mars and Sent Seismic Shockwaves Through the Red Planet
A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...
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See the Year’s Most Spectacular Meteor Showers and Eclipses from These 5 Trails
Want to watch the meteor showers, eclipses, and celestial events going on in 2025? Check them out from these dark sky ...
Here's when you can see February’s full snow moon and the last of the planetary parade
Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...
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February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
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NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample reveals mix of life’s ingredients
Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed ...