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Scientists have uncovered a new mystery about Uranus' rings buried deep in data from NASA's iconic Voyager 2 mission.
Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft still has five years of trekking through space before it sees its first Trojan asteroid, but mission scientists are already getting a sense of what these rocks look like.
The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.
The future is a slippery thing, but sometimes physics can help. And while human destiny will remain ever unknown, the fate of two of our artifacts can be calculated in staggering detail.
Four retired telescope missions are helping astronomers uncover new insights about how dust behaves in galaxies.
Astronomers are watching a red hypergiant star's final era to better understand what happens at the end of a stellar life cycle.
Thousands of distant galaxies in different shapes and sizes glow in infrared light in a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
