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The Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers uncover an object right at the dividing line between stars and planets. The…

If you’ve watched this channel enough, you might have the impression that I hate Venus. It’s possible, just possible I’ve…

In this week's questions show, I explain why it's probably not time to reconsider the definition of a moon, if…

After traveling for more than 930 days on the surface of Mars, NASA’s Opportunity rover is nearly at the rim…

Prior to 1957, virtually all photographs of the sky were produced as monochrome, black and white images. In that year,…

People always ask me how I think humanity will react if we discover life somewhere out there in the Universe,…

When SMART-1 ended its mission by crashing into the Moon on Semptember 3, telescopes around the world were watching. A…

No guest this week, just a live QA with me and the audience about all things space and astronomy. People…

This photograph of Saturn’s rings shows the effect of a moon’s gravity. The leftmost ring is Saturn’s F ring, which…

While we’re all waiting for James Webb to launch – which it will – the Extremely Large Telescope to be…