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View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...
Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...
Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...
Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...