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When you gaze towards a clear moonless night sky, the stars appear as points of light – most are colorless.…

A new Progress cargo ship docked to the International Space Station today, carrying more than 2.5 tonnes of fuel, water…

A new simulation by NASA and the National Science Foundation accurately predicted what the Sun’s corona should look like during…

ESA’s SMART-1 has been orbiting the Moon for 16 months, but it’s out of fuel, so its life is almost…

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! As warm nights and later sky dark hours descend on the northern hemisphere, it’s time to begin…

V838 Monocerotis. You might not remember the name, or even be able to pronounce it, but you’ve seen the pictures.…

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have had a busy week preparing for their next Progress cargo ship. On…

As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft gets closer to Mercury, it’s also flying closer to the Sun. And temperatures are rising. The…

The Pluto, Charon, Nix and Hydra system (credit: NASA/STScI) The International Astronomical Union approved new names for Pluto’s recently discovered…

The concept of extra dimensions, that there are whole other regions of reality that we can’t perceive, has tantalized physicists…