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Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

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On the evening of June 5, De Anza came alive with stargazers, telescopes and wonder as students, faculty and community ...

A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity into a single theory.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...