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There’s a micromoon coming up. The full moon will look slightly smaller and dimmer on Saturday night. But the change may be ...
The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...
Scientists say gravity as well as tidal forces are responsible for pushing the moon further away from our planet ...
A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...
Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a ...
For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...
Here's how to see 4 astronomical shows this month, such as a pink full moon, the Lyrid meteor shower and the moon hanging out ...
Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...
After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for ...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...
The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday, Ars reports. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance ...
Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...