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Learn all about outer space: the stars, the planets, the sun and moon, and the many discoveries humans have made in the universe beyond.

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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
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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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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
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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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Scientists Don't Know Why Polaris Is So Weird
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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
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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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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 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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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 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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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 Find Vast, Ancient Galaxies Hiding in Plain Sight
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'Malnourished' Black Hole Breaks All the Rules
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Why NASA Is Sending a Winged Robot to Saturn's Moon, Titan
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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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Sleep Under the Stars to Watch the Perseids
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Jupiter's Watery Moon Is Full of Table Salt
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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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Why the First Mission Team to Mars Should Include Only Women
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A Guide to the Full Moons of 2019
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There's a Lump on the Moon That's 5 Times Bigger Than Hawaii's Big Island
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8 Amazing Auroras Seen on Earth...and Beyond
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Best Places to See the Northern Lights
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Why Bill Nye's Solar Sail Matters for the Future of Space Travel
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The Brightest Star in the Night Sky Will Go Dark
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12 Spectacular Images From NASA's Spitzer Telescope
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The Moon Keeps Flashing, and Nobody Knows Why
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Meet the Women of NASA
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A Second, Smaller Moon Has Been Hanging Around Our Planet for Years
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Artist's 'Infinite Essence' Affirms That We Are All Made of Starstuff
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Evidence of a Secret Ocean Inside Pluto Makes Extraterrestrial Life More Plausible
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The Most Beautiful Cosmic Bauble of All
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After the Big Northridge Earthquake, a Mysterious Cloud Appeared Above LA – Here's What It Was
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What to See in the Night Sky in 2020
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8 Surreal Images of Venus
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See the Earliest Known Footage of a Solar Eclipse
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Scientists Figure Out What the Celestial Phenomenon "Steve" Really Is
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9 Magnificent Images of Mercury
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Space Affects Women's and Men's Bodies in Different Ways
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The Northern Lights May Become a Rare Sight
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Plans for Orbiting Lunar Outpost Take Shape
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Everything We Thought We Knew About Dark Energy Might Be Wrong
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NASA's New Spacesuits Will Take Astronauts to the Moon and Mars
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NASA Captures Massive Meteor Explosion Over Bering Sea That Everyone Missed
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Can Life Emerge on a Planet Without Water? New Theory Says Yes
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NASA 'Treasure Map' Shows Water Ice on Mars
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What You Need to Know About Comet Catalina
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Why NASA Wants to 'Touch the Sun'
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Scientists Discover 'Monster' Black Hole That 'Should Not Even Exist'
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10 Spectacular Moons in Our Solar System
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Get Ready for Peak Perseid Meteor Shower
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8 Mysterious Images of Mars