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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Helix Nebula, highlighting comet-like knots of…
An unusual ratio of potassium isotopes, found in samples of basaltic rock brought back to Earth from the moon’s South…
The galaxy cluster MACS J0308 acts as a lens for Supernova Ares.NASA / ESA / CSA Sixty years from now,…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The rocket that will launch the next humans to the moon is rolling to the pad…
The Lazuli Space Observatory, which has a targeted launch date of July 2028, is shown in orbit in this artist’s…
I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away
By Vidya Saras
SUNRIVER, Oregon — Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper trees in Central Oregon’s High…
This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.…
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 ■ Full Moon tonight (exactly full at 5:03 a.m. Saturday morning EST). The Moon is above Jupiter,…
NASA’s first crewed mission toward the moon in more than half a century moved closer to liftoff recently, as the…