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Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...
While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this ...
Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...
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How we study our planet
We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.
The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s hit list.
NASA's former director of space operations and now a senior manager at SpaceX. "Enjoy the views of the poles, send us some pictures. Our hearts and our minds will be flying with you ...