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The night sky in June 2025 promises a spectacular array of celestial events that will captivate amateur astronomers and sky watchers alike. According to a detailed overview byNational Geographic, this ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. "Moons likely outnumber planets ...

A stellar two-fer: See two star clusters in the morning sky and bring a pair of binoculars. Last month I wrote about the constellation Orion. Using the three stars in the belt of Orion, follow the ...

New NASA images of a mountain-size, "planet killer" asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth last month have revealed a surprise companion circling the massive space rock. When you purchase ...

Beginning in late November during the waning phases of the Moon, and then again in late December, you can investigate the possibility of a curious optical phenomenon. It involves a bright planet ...

evidence that these once were just 3 or 4 moons, minding their business, orbiting the planet like all regular saturnian moons do today. The 12 new-found moons are in irregular orbits that suggest they ...

Viral social media posts claiming a celestial "smiley face" will appear on Christmas are false. The "smiley face" illusion is an optical effect caused by the alignment of a crescent Moon and two ...