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A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to ...
What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.
Skywatchers: May’s flower moon peaks on Monday, and Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter are visible in the sky throughout the ...
Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...
Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...
The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on ...
NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge asks students to create a mission to a moon using radioisotope power systems.
Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...
The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...
May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...
In reality, the stars of the Big Dipper are separated from one another by near unimaginable tracts of space, but from the ...