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Largest known star (16,000 light years away) shows signs of imminent destruction. W26 is 3,000 times the diameter of o ...

Orionid meteor shower tonight — Let’s talk meteor showers for a minute. Majors, minors, what to expect, whe ...

An ancient stone owned by Tutankhamun has been identified as a piece of comet nucleus, the first ever discovered on Ear ...

97% of NASA employees have been furloughed as a result of the partial federal government shutdown. A prolonged shutdown ...

Methane on Mars? Earlier methane indication suggested existing life or recent life underground, but newer data from the ...

Hubble discovers a globular cluster cluster – 2.25 billion light years from earth in a cluster of galaxies called ...

Thursday’s full moon is the Harvest Moon, which is the full moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox, which arrives S ...

Be very afraid: this Friday marks the first of two Friday the 13ths this year. The Epsilon Perseid Meteors are a real s ...

This Friday night, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere And Dust Environment Explorer is scheduled to launch from the Mid-Atla ...

Not all planets orbit the stars from which they derived, and it’s now thought that some of these ‘free agen ...

Moon is full tomorrow night, so watch as the moon rises as the sun sets or moon sets as sun rises. Venus and Saturn are ...

Count on an early setting moon, and with clear skies the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower has the potential to ...

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Curiosity’s landing on Mars. Perseids peak next week – try seein ...

Earlier this month NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, collecting valuable data as it orbits Saturn had a rare opportunity ...

A 14th moon of Neptune has been discovered and this one gets the prize for smallest size. Also, we’ll look back o ...