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Beam into these stellar celebrations to mark the sci-fi franchise's historic anniversary this Labor Day Weekend!

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has officially launched its twentieth data release (DR20), featuring updated data from multiple observations projects.

Venus is sinking into the sunset as it catches up with Earth - and a small telescope now reveals something the naked eye never can: another planet going through phases.

As the BepiColombo mission prepares to enter the final phase of its journey to Mercury, a series of studies conducted by researchers at the University of Liège and KU Leuven sheds new light on the early stages of the ev...

Scientists are close to understanding how stars forge the elements that comprise our planet, bodies and pretty much everything else around us, and how they explode to distribute these elements.

Pulsar Timing Arrays have been used to observe the background of gravitational waves in our galaxy. We aren't certain of their origin, but a new study shows a strong source could be early supermassive giants known as...

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In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular asteroids, showing that their tensile strength can be predicted from the size and shape of their cons...

On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States-and parts of Canada-enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus. A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon moves directly in front of another cele...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spectacular 'super bubble' in our Milky Way's nearest neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud. Check out our space photo of the day.

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common, these encounters compressed molecular gas, causing dense clouds to collapse under their own g...

An explosive hands-on demo has us more excited than before for the new action RPG led by BioWare veterans, who talked to us about its making.

New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role magnetism played in the birth of the solar system.

A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA's Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even snap photos more than a week after the rescue was abandoned.

A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar system bodies.

Copernicus Sentinel-3 is one of the most diverse missions for measuring and monitoring Earths climate systems. It captures a breadth of data about the environment and has contributed substantially to what we know about c...

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The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.