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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.
Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail
Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing into space.
Earth Day: What is it and why does it matter?
Reference Earth Day highlights the actions we can take to address environmental problems.
Our galactic neighbor Andromeda has a bunch of satellite galaxies — and they're weirdly pointing at us
The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.
Blue Skies Space to build satellite fleet around the moon to map the ancient universe
A fleet of cubesats will act as a radio telescope to map the cosmic Dark Ages, its builders say.
Twinkling star reveals the secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighborhood
Astronomers have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighborhood.
Colorful Eagle Nebula glows in stunning new image from Hubble Telescope
A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation.
How did this ancient black hole get so big?
While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared.
