We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a single calendar month ...

A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

Utah astronomer Patrick Wiggins isn't a morning person. Of course, when you do what he does, he needs a night sky to work, and now he's been doing it for 4,500 nights.

Like Karla Coreil, who saw a spectacular shooting star in 2014 while kayaking at night in the Vieques bioluminescent bay in ...

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According to the official website of NASA, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey ...

In January 2025, the White House issued Executive Order 14179: “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” The directive instructs federal agencies to eliminate ideological ...

On August 12, the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (noted above) will be positioned such that Venus will appear bright while Jupiter takes on a golden glow. The conjunction of the moon and the planet ...

A team of astronomers just discovered FRB 20240304B, a fast radio burst (FRB) from 11 billion years ago. It is the farthest ...

Water is essential for life on Earth. So, the liquid must be a requirement for life in other worlds. For decades, scientists' definition of habitability on other planets has rested on this assumption.

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