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Night after night in the dry air of Chile’s Atacama Desert, fine dust and pollutants settle on the aluminum coating of the mirrors belonging to the Very Large Telescope, part

NASA’s spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system’s largest celestial body (aside from the sun), may already be switched off, but the space agency won’t say. The Juno

October’s full Harvest Moon looms large over the eastern horizon at sunset tonight! Here’s what you need to know before the first supermoon of 2025 rises to dominate the night

Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very first exoplanet to be discovered around a sun-like star was revealed. Called 51 Pegasi b, it was a world like nothing

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has taken notice. Digital artist Ashley Zelinskie took that inspiration to the

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is promoting a case for economic activity on and around the moon. In some quarters, it’s all blue-sky yammering. On the other

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Even before an Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence company opened a

Floating above Earth, the International Space Station is a symbol of global cooperation, scientific discovery and the relentless curiosity that drives us to explore the cosmos. It’s not just a

On July 22, 2028, the moon’s shadow will cut a 143-mile-wide (230 kilometer) path across Australia and New Zealand. According to NASA, it will mark the first total solar eclipse

NASA is Closed for Business – And Other Top Space Stories – YouTube Watch On On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the