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NASA has discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object, now passing through our solar system from the ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...
Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...
NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from the Chile-based facility. One of the first images released shows the ...
This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...
Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...
Classic novas typically appear in the night sky once a year at most, making the simultaneous appearance of two such events ...
Astronomers describe Mercury as an "inferior planet", because its orbital path around the sun is much closer than that of ...
Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.
Alexandria Echo Press reporter Lisa Johnson and Astro Bob talk about occultations in this episode of "Minnesota Night Skies." ...