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These dark sky sanctuaries, reserves, parks, and trails invite you to immerse yourself in the wonders of our night skies.
Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...
But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...
According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...
Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...
This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...
The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.
On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...
It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...
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Though little is known about Deimos, another European spacecraft recently captured unprecedented views of the moon's far side ...
You need a dark sky site to see the Milky Way and a clear view of the horizon. As May begins, the Milky Way rises around midnight and climbs higher in the sky until dawn. In late May, more of our ...