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On Aug. 31, 1913, Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was born in England. When he was 15, a school trip to hear a lecture on ...
SpaceX Starship launch delay pushes the 10th test flight. Get details on the scrub, a Blue Origin delay, and a recap of last ...
The ringed planet shows off several moons, Venus hangs with the Beehive, and Mercury passes Regulus in the sky this week.
Saturn’s two-toned moon, Iapetus, sits 9.5’ west of the planet and shines at its brightest, offering a good chance to spot it.
SpaceX Starship achieves its first payload deployment, overcoming past failures and advancing the mission toward Mars ...
Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...
German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Wild Duck Cluster in 1681. Messier made it his 11th catalog entry May 30, ...
The brightening Moon now sits to the left of Spica tonight, helping guide the way to Libra’s lovely double star, ...
Matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzles physicists. Learn how the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) may find answers.
Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...
The Full Moon typically ruins deep-sky imaging, but the right processing can bring out fainter targets. Here are some expert ...
New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.