The waxing gibbous Moon passes Antares. Turn the Summer Triangle into the Summer Diamond. And as you snuggle into bed, would Vega land on your roof if it dropped out of the sky?

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When a meteorite tore through a New Jersey home, the homeowner quickly preserved the fragments. Now, they're giving scientists a look at Earth's early history.

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This periodic visitor is now bright enough to see in binoculars from a dark sky. We also report on a bright supernova in Ursa Major.

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Astronomers have found a Jupiter-mass world orbiting a brown dwarf that orbits a star.

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Observations of remote cosmic explosions reveal that the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way might extend farther out than previously thought.

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The crescent Moon visits Venus in twilight. After dark, we're in the peak month for "the Orion of Summer" with its Cat's Eyes. And cold-weather Cassiopeia is already poking up.

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A team of astronomers have discovered helium escaping from a rocky planet, marking the first detection of an atmosphere on a rocky world.

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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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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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