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NASA’s InSight Mars lander keeps daily records of weather conditions at the Elysium Planitia landing site on the red planet. Last week ...

Stardust discovered in a meteorite that landed in Australia more than 50 years ago is up to three billion years older than our solar syst ...

Today is Galileo’s 456th birth anniversary. His iconoclastic reputation overshadows his basic raison d’etre at the time – to make a ...

Astronomers observing white dwarf stars see spectrographic signatures of previously orbiting gas giant planets. Our gas giants (Jupiter a ...

49ers, Chiefs & Punxsutawney Phil This Superbowl Sunday coincides with Groundhog Day – the first cross-quarter da ...

There’s the asteroid belt that we all know between Mars and Jupiter; there’s the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, the most famous inha ...

The dim red star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, is known to have an EarthPlus-planet in the star’s habitable zone. Now a ...

Supernovae are known as element factories, but astronomers are now discovering that merging neutron stars and fast-spinning supernovae ma ...

This year’s highlights in the world of astronomy include: 1) An image of the shadow of a black hole resembles an ‘oran ...

We’ve arrived at the point in our solar orbit where the number of hours of sunlight are at a minimum for us in the North, and and c ...

SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...

Thinking about buying a telescope as a gift this holiday season? Consider these three easy guidelines: 1) Start simple; a telescop ...

There are lots of hints regarding the possibility of the existence of liquid water around the solar, system, the galaxy, and the universe ...

Our Milky Way’s SgrA Black Hole in the center of our galaxy has ejected a star from the galaxy at a brisk 3.7 million miles per hou ...