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A total solar eclipse on Aug 2, 2027, will be visible across southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Find out more about where to see the 'eclipse of the century' in our guide.

Earth is getting a new world map that more accurately depicts how much land countries contain — but surprisingly similar issues plague interplanetary mapmakers, too.

Using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists are on the hunt for quantum black holes smaller than atoms.

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. Here's why it mattered for Jupiter exploration.

SpaceX has rolled Starship's first-stage booster to the pad ahead of the megarocket's first-ever orbital flight, which is targeted to lift off on Sept. 28.

We're one step closer to interstellar weather forecasting.

Scientists have created a video reconstruction of the high-energy jets of a blazar, a supermassive black hole blasting plasma straight at Earth.

McGetchin crater formed some time in 2024 and is as wide as two football fields.

Astronomers have studied nine local galaxies to discover how shock waves from the galaxies' central supermassive black holes sculpt star formation.

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample and return it to Earth. Here's why it mattered.