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Easter is coming late in 2025, astronomically speaking. Here's why
Easter falls on the Sunday that follows the first full moon occurring on or after the day of the spring equinox. So it seems like Easter should be this weekend. Here's why it isn't.
The newest GOES weather satellite in NOAA's fleet is now fully operational (video)
The powerful GOES-19 satellites, one of the most advanced ever built, has taken on a new name.
Elon Musk's DOGE team given 'alarming degree' of access to NASA systems, House Democrats say
"None of these three individuals possess the slightest background or experience in space policy or government service."
A gravitational war next door: The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually destroying the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart.
The sun just leaked a huge amount of helium-3 — the rare isotope scientists want to harvest on the moon
The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.
What to expect from the newfound Comet Swan: An observer's guide
Here's an observers' guide to the newly discovered Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN), which is visible in northern skies right now.
NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'
Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring to life with powerful X-ray eruptions.
This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it
The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.
