Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission has revealed another "snowman" asteroid — a pair of asteroids attached with a narrow neck. The contact binary could help shed light on planet formation.

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Meet Cygnus, the Swan, a high-flying constellation that looks like its namesake and has a rich mythological history.

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Regulus creeps up to Venus in twilight this week. Vega and Arcturus balance across the zenith. And this being July, Scorpius decorates the south.

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A daring mission will attempt to reach and save a key astrophysics observatory in low Earth orbit.

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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has found two “super-puff” planets in the same system, each one as light as cotton candy.

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NASA has awarded contracts to three aerospace companies for four lunar landers to launch in 2028.

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This month’s episode highlights the bright star Spica, now prominent high in the southwest after evening twilight. It’s leading the parade of constellations, along with the brilliant planet Venus, that will grace the Northern Hemisphere’s summer skies. You'll also get to know other brights stars in Spica’s vicinity, along with excellent tips on how to be a better stargazer. So grab curiosity and come along on this month’s Sky Tour.

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The telescope should spot billions of astronomical objects in the next 10 years.

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Astronomers have underestimated just how bright the low-frequency radio sky is, new measurements show.

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The almost-full Moon steps past orange Antares between Friday and Saturday evenings, June 26th and 27th.

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Exploding stars have left their radioactive mark on our planet. Now scientists have found more evidence of a particularly violent event in Earth’s more ancient past.

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New analysis reveals a tight relationship between two supernova remnants in the outer Milky Way.

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The most recent interstellar visitor was crisscrossing our galaxy for some 10 to 12 billion years before it came near the Sun.

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On its way to future encounters with Trojan asteroids, the Lucy spacecraft made a practice run past tiny asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. Now, the Lucy team, led […]

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The Moon as it will appear in an amateur telescope at 10 p.m. EDT Friday the 19th. This week Venus and Jupiter continue moving apart low in the western twilight. Vega and Arcturus shine equally high after dark. And watch Beta Lyrae self-eclipse.

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A star-forming galaxy in the early universe might have sent a ghostly particle known as a neutrino crashing into the ice at Earth’s South Pole, after an 11 billion-year journey through space.

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A deep spectrum of a mysterious "little red dot" reveals a supermassive black hole cocooned in gas so dense it's opaque — but glowing in the infrared.

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On June 17th, much of North America can watch the Moon occult Venus in the daytime sky. All you need are binoculars.

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A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met a violent end in the earliest days of the solar system.

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The three planets in the western twilight are pulling away from each other now. On Wednesday, the Moon will occult Venus in daylight.

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