Two teams of astronomers independently discovered a third giant gas planet orbiting in the famous Beta Pictoris system.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the launch of Reflect Orbital's Earendil 1 satellite — a space mirror 18 meters wide designed to reflect sunlight to the ground.

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"Rogue" Neptune-size worlds might not roam the galaxy totally on their own, just very far away from their parent stars.

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The sharp-eyed and far-seeing Euclid space telescope has picked up 31 early quasars that have evaded detection until now.

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The bright, distinctive pattern of Upper Scorpius is on its best display in the south right after nightfall. Telescopic treasures await. In the west, Regulus now departs from Venus.

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China’s Tianwen 2 mission returns its close view of Earth's tiny "quasi-moon" Kamoʻoalewa.

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Here's an observing guide to both familiar and lesser-known deep-sky objects that inhabit our galaxy's equatorial zone.

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We might be living through a comet shower created by a star that millions of years ago jostled the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system.

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