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Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors....
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Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors....
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live....
The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory....
Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace....
Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the night sky....
The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation....
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean....
The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different....
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The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22....
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system....
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With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026....
"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the prospects of extraterrestrial life in its ocean."...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact....
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...