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Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies
We are sending ever more stuff into space, and now megaconstellations of satellites risk causing light…
How to use Orion to find Canis Major and Canis Minor
The dog constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, seem to run along faithfully behind Orion. Here’s…
Why we need to get serious about solving the space junk problem
The overcrowding of low Earth orbit with commercial satellites is a problem for astronomers and the…
Promising radio signal isn’t aliens, just human-generated interference
The Breakthrough Listen project detected radio waves that seemed to be the best candidate yet for…
Astronomers left puzzled by the dimmest supernova ever seen
The dimmest supernova ever spotted is at least 100 times fainter than a normal explosion of…
Saturn’s moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is slowly migrating away from the planet, which is tilting Saturn onto…
Invasion review: A slow-moving, tedious disaster drama
Apple TV’s Invasion follows various characters as they pick up on hints of alien activity. But many…
Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space
Space probes will be the first to explore the furthest reaches of our solar system and…
Arid meteor shower makes new appearance in southern hemisphere skies
A meteor shower called the Arids has appeared in southern hemisphere skies, as predicted by astronomers …