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Astronomers have long understood that a star called Thuban, possibly a North Star with the ancient Egyptians, is actually a pair of stars. NASA astronomers recently disc…
After three days of practice at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Scarsdale High School students found a new exoplanet in the TOI 1338 star system.
In 2020, nature does not disappoint sky lovers because there are many observable points not to be missed.
The US and NASA Space Hubble Space Telescope has discovered UGC 2885, the largest spiral galaxy ever recorded.
Let's take a look back at the most outstanding achievements of space science in the period 2010 - 2019, to see how far we have come in exploring the vast vast universe o…
Geologists discovered unusually large gravitational interactions on the territory of Laos, indicating the existence of a crater of 20 km in size. It appeared as a result…
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) found four asteroids rushing towards Earth on 1 January, two of which were discovered only the moment it passed.
Meteor shower, Wolf Moon and New Moon are 3 astronomical phenomena that will appear in January 2020.
People living on earth aren't the only ones counting down the time to welcome the New Year 2020 at midnight. Six orbiting explorers also celebrated the arrival of the ne…
The latest lunar eclipse is on the upcoming 11/1 but not the familiar blood moon but a semi-dark lunar eclipse.
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) on December 31, 2019 shared photos that reveal the structure and glow of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258.
Another solar system with the center is a sun-like star and two planets (one is super-earth, the other is a copy of Neptune) found by NASA's planetary hunters.
According to Science Alert, this is the right planet to study life in the Milky Way, and help us better understand the planets scattered in this universe.
When it happens, the explosion of a star larger than 1,000 Suns can be seen from the Earth even in the morning.
Hot, strange worlds how we are 160 to 440 light years away may be the key to our understanding of how the earth was formed.