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Although our universe is mostly normal matter, antimatter isn’t so hard to create — supernovae, black holes, and even bananas ...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening this spring to observe one of ...
Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what ...
Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.
Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...
View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.
The company is developing a commercial replacement for the ISS, currently planned to be retired at the end of the decade.
PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...
The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...
A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...
The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.