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It’s the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without one final show, it appears — and NASA’s

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket can certainly overcome adversity. The Vulcan Centaur launched for the fourth time ever on Thursday morning (Feb. 12), carrying two spy satellites

Scientists investigating the puzzling, long-lasting, and extreme dimming of a distant star have narrowed the suspects down to either a so-called “failed star” brown dwarf or a truly massive super-Jupiter

An annular solar eclipse will turn the sun into a dramatic “ring of fire” on Feb. 17, as the moon passes between Earth and the sun, leaving a thin outer

The Milky Way shines over the Very Large Telescope in Chile. (Image credit: A. Trigo/ESO) The European Southern Observatory has released a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way shining over

Scientists may be closing in on the long-missing landing site of the Soviet Union’s Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely touch down on the moon. On Feb. 3,

The first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years will launch just two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. NASA announced today (Feb. 20) that it’s

Wildfires don’t just scorch landscapes. Some are so intense that they create their own weather systems, such as pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms that loft smoke up to 10 miles (16 kilometers) into

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a

The United States has some new marching orders in the final frontier. On Thursday (Dec. 18), President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Ensuring American Space Superiority.” Dominance off