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A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

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To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in ...

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Vaonis' Hestia combines a telescope and camera into an all-in-one package that will turbocharge your phone for astroimaging.

Earlier this year, ESO alerted the astronomy ... corporation would use the least-invasive lighting available today. “However, we are concerned that the inventory of light sources planned by ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

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WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple ...

For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...