Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

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Albireo at the head of Cygnus the Swan is a lovely double star with contrasting colors — a summertime favorite.

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The album that turned the band into superstars is getting an anniversary rerelease that shows why it still gleams.

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Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, ...

A compact graphene device has pushed single-photon detection into a new era, promising advances in medical imaging, and ...

Seventy-five years ago, America was talking excitedly about saucers — flying saucers, UFOs, extra-terrestrial craft or ...

Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...