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Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Brecher imaged the distant

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky. To

SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink launches, ever growing the company’s orbital internet constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX‘s Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of

As scientists and space enthusiasts commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in orbit, the mission team joined in by delivering a fresh collection of awe-inspiring images. Launched on April

Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically,

Much of the “content” released during “Star Wars“‘ Disney era has had the homogeneity of a production line, with scenes from “Ahsoka”, “The Mandalorian”, and even “The Acolyte” often seeming

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just snapped an off-Earth action shot the likes of which we’ve never seen before. On Feb. 28, MRO’s HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera captured

The Hubble Space Telescope is seen being released into Earth orbit by the STS-31 crew aboard space shuttle Discovery in April 1990. (Image credit: NASA) Now the most well-recognized and

Do you ever feel like the universe is smiling down on you? Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that

Astronomers have discovered that “super-Earth” planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or “terrestrial,” worlds are far more common than was suspected.