A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.

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A never-before-seen image of the cosmic microwave background, combining data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Let me just get this out of the way: boards are weird. Not because the people are weird (mostly), but because the dynamic is.

At the start of a surprise appearance at CinemaCon this morning, Tom Cruise took a moment to honor his Top Gun co-star, the late Val Kilmer. Kilmer passed away earlier this week at age 65 ...

Morgan Wallen will not miss making an extra buck after his abrupt Saturday Night Live exit moment went viral. The former Voice Season 6 contestant capitalizes on his “Get me to God’s Country ...

A strong contingent of startups from Kerala, groomed by Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), is all set make a strong impression at the Startup Mahakumbh 2025, a premier national startup event starting in ...

Today, the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the general availability of Valkey 8.1, marking a major milestone in the advancement of ...

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870. Lisa Grossman is the astronomy writer. She has a degree in astronomy from Cornell University and a graduate certificate in science writing from University of California, Santa Cruz.