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For more than a century, astronomers have marveled at the brilliant jet of matter blasting from the heart of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope

Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as

Conceived from notes left by the late Gene Roddenberry and developed with his wife, Majel Roddenberry, and producer Robert Wolfe, “Andromeda” marks its milestone 25th anniversary today. “Andromeda” was one

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” It’s the mantra that motivates wrongly imprisoned Andy Dufresne throughout his brutal 20-year stretch in Shawshank State Prison, and it’s safe to assume

The first supermoon of 2025 takes to the night sky in less than one week! Here’s what you need to know about the full “Harvest Moon” before it rises to

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae’s full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life’s building blocks have been found in the watery geysers of Enceladus, almost twenty

A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus’ orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus

It’s been six long years since a “Star Wars” movie lit up theater screens, not counting this past summer’s “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” rerelease to salute its 20th

Ariel, one of Uranus’ icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its frozen crust, according to new research. The findings