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In 1181, astronomers, poets, and diary keepers in China and Japan recorded a 'guest star'...
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System and has a planetary magnetosphere to...
When astronauts first travel to Mars, or anywhere else in deep space, they will have...
ESA’s Hera is set to provide some spectacular new views of a familiar binary asteroid. In...
Brown dwarfs are the black (or brown?) sheep of astronomy. They’re too big to be...
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Two annual meteor streams offer good cause to watch the sky in October. Fall meteor season...
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The Sun is so intensely bright we can't safely look at it directly. We need...
We've gotta give credit to space scientists. They come up with great names for things,...
A core-collapse supernova occurs when a massive star reaches the end of its life. After...
Since its inception in 1990, the Human Genome Project has led to breakthroughs in our...
Mercury remains one of our solar system’s most elusive and difficult planets to study. It's...