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Get a huge discount on the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ telescope in time for the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower, full ...
Skyrocketing tariffs on China are rippling through the astronomy industry. If they hold, some fear deeper wounds to the ...
The star ZTF SLRN-2020 was believed by astronomers to have swollen up and engulfed a planet. Recent studies, however, suggest ...
From eyepieces to travel scopes, these products caught the eye of Astronomy Contributing Editor Phil Harrington on the NEAF ...
When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...
Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to engulf ...
This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...
By using a new technique, they found that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. That’s 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate in 1986. Copyright 2025 CNN ...
A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers is a top priority for astronomers. These rare collisions between dense ...
The confirmation hearing for the next head of NASA took place yesterday, April 9, with Trump’s nominee, billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman, answering questions from the senators in the ...