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Despite the Headlines, 'Election-Day Asteroid' Poses No Threat

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Extreme 'Space Butterfly' Captured by ESO Telescope

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This Is the First Direct Image Taken of Two Planets Orbiting Their Young Star

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Could Our Sun Release a Massively Destructive Superflare?
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Astronomers Create an Unprecedented Portrait of Jupiter in Infrared
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Why the Search for Life on Other Planets Depends on Hydrogen
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NASA's Asteroid Deflection Mission May Spark an Artificial Meteor Shower
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NASA Wants You for a Space Isolation Study
Current Events
SpaceX Opens a New Chapter in U.S. Spaceflight
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Did Scientists Just Find Evidence of a Parallel Universe?
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The Closest Star to Us Also Has an Earth-Sized Planet Orbiting It
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Something Very Big and Very Dark Punched a Hole in Our Galaxy
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Lyrid Meteor Shower to Peak Around Earth Day
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What Does Mercury in Retrograde Mean?
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A Rare Star Escapes the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Galaxy
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We May Know How the Bizarre, Cigar-Shaped Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Was Formed
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7 Enlightening Facts About the Vernal Equinox
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Scientists Have Picked Up a Radio Signal From the Other Side of the Universe
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We're Close to Solving the Mystery of Those Flashing Lights on the Moon
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5 Reasons Why the James Webb Space Telescope Is Such a Big Deal
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What to See in the Night Sky in December
Planet Earth
A Timeline of the Distant Future for Life on Earth
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A Third of Americans Believe in UFOs, but They Aren't All Looking for the Same Thing
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One of Japan's Most Spectacular Ancient Sky Mysteries Has Been Solved
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Why Approaching Comet ATLAS Is So Bright (And How You Can See It)
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Scientists Don't Know Why Polaris Is So Weird
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What's Eating Betelgeuse?
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Japan's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Is Heading Back to Earth
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NASA's InSight Lander Confirms 'Marsquakes' Are Real
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Black Holes Power Some of the Brightest Objects in the Universe, So Why Is Ours So Calm?
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Hubble Takes Snapshots of Interstellar Comet as It Careens by Earth
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How Moon Mining Could Transform the Economy and Space Travel
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How to See the Geminid Meteor Shower
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What to See in the Night Sky in September
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This Earth-Sized Planet Turns Out to Be Our Nearly Next-Door Neighbor
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Quadrantids to Light Up the Night Sky
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Black Hole Boots a Star Clear Across the Milky Way — And It's Moving Incredibly Fast
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Scientists Find Mysterious Galaxies That Don't Have Any Dark Matter
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2 Dead Stars Are Locked in a Timeless Embrace
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Could the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy Actually Be a Wormhole?
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For the First Time, Scientists Capture a Shockwave Bursting From the Sun
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This Black Hole Nurtures Baby Stars Instead of Eating Them
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Why We Can't Stop Thinking About Warp Drive
Natural Disasters
NASA Images of Hurricanes From Space
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Every Solar System Model You've Seen Is Wrong
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It Took 265,000 Galaxies and One Starry-Eyed Telescope to Create This Image
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Starman's Tesla Completes Orbit Around the Sun
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How the Moon Messes With Your Sleep
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We Don't Know How Bright the Moon Is — But We Need To
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Dead Planets Sing Sad, Sad Songs
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Scientists Detect a Massive Thermonuclear Explosion From Outer Space
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Scientists Just Found the Smallest Black Hole Yet
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Scientists Baffled by Sudden Brightness of Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
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Sun Flashes Jack-O'-Lantern Grin in Uncanny NASA Photo
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Could a Tiny Spacecraft Sail on a Beam of Light Across the Galaxy?
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A Black Hole Met a Neutron Star and Swallowed It 'Pac-Man' Style
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This Newly Discovered Star May Have Been Around When the Universe Was Still a Baby
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All Hail Godzilla, the King of All Galaxies
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What Is a Dark Star?
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NASA's All-Female Spacewalk Is Happening
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NASA Shows Us a Supermassive Black Hole in All Its Warped, Weird Glory
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What to See in the Night Sky in July
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Could Elon Musk's Project Erase the Night Sky?
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The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse May 'Outshine' 2017
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A Former NASA Scientist Is Convinced We Already Found Life on Mars
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The Black Hole at the Heart of This Galaxy May Be Among the Biggest in the Universe
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Scientists Thrilled to Find Water Vapor in Exoplanet's Atmosphere
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Venus May Have Once Boasted Earth-Like Temperatures, Oceans and Even Life
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What to See in the Night Sky in April
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'Ploonet' May Be the Most Adorable Name Ever for a Moon That Leaves the Nest
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NASA's New Mission Will Spot Killer Asteroids Before They Sneak Up on Us
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Life on Other Planets May Glow Like Coral to Protect Itself From an Angry Sun
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Look for the Northern Lights in the US This Weekend
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A Meteorite Smashed Into Mars — And Left the Red Planet Black and Blue
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Does a Full Moon Really Inspire More Crime?
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Scientists Have Found a 'Forbidden Planet' That Has No Business Being Where It Is
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Scientists Find Vast, Ancient Galaxies Hiding in Plain Sight
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'Malnourished' Black Hole Breaks All the Rules
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Gardening in Outer Space Is Going to Be Tough
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Why NASA Is Sending a Winged Robot to Saturn's Moon, Titan
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Black Holes Are 'Portals to Other Universes,' According to New Quantum Results
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A Meteorite Smashed Into the Blood Moon During the Eclipse, and It Was Caught on Film
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7 Weird Facts About Black Holes
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12 Incredible Images of Saturn
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A Newly Discovered Football-Shaped Planet Is Blasting Heavy Metal Into Space
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Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole Has Become Suddenly Ravenous
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Sleep Under the Stars to Watch the Perseids
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Astronomy Student Discovers 17 Alien Worlds
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Astronomers Just Detected the Largest Explosion in Our Universe Since the Big Bang
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Jupiter's Watery Moon Is Full of Table Salt
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Astronomers Discover Black Hole That Wobbles, Puffs and Pulls on Spacetime
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There's a Radio Signal From Deep Space That's Repeating Every 16 Days
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Who Owns the Night Sky?
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The World's Most Famous Black Hole Gets a Name
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The First Image of a Black Hole Is Here
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'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Marks Last of 2019
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Why the First Mission Team to Mars Should Include Only Women
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There's a Lump on the Moon That's 5 Times Bigger Than Hawaii's Big Island