Credit: NOIRLab The Dark Energy Camera has captured an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named…
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August’s supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here’s how to watch
The moon rises through clouds over the skyline of lower Manhattan in this view from West…
International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon
An image of the moon is projected at the Iziko Planetarium in Cape Town, South Africa,…
Tracking a newly discovered hypervelocity star spotted by citizen scientists
Artist’s illustration of a hypothetical J1249+36-white dwarf binary pair that ends with the white dwarf exploding…
Astronomers identify more than one thousand new star cluster candidates
The central 870 pc of the Cigar Galaxy seen with NIRCam. Credit: Levy et al., 2024.…
Satellites are making the night sky brighter—as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution
New Zealand’s space sector has been developing rapidly since the first rocket lifted off in 2017.…
NASA to decide stranded Starliner astronauts’ route home by end of month
A final decision on whether to persist with Starliner — seen here docked with the ISS…
New analysis of Webb data measures universe expansion rate, finds there may not be a ‘Hubble tension’
Scientists used new data taken by the James Webb Space Telescope to make a new reading…
New massive eccentric brown dwarf discovered
TESS phase-folded lightcurve of TOI-2490, showing the relative flux of the 30-minute (1800 s) Sector 5…
NASA still deciding whether to keep 2 astronauts at space station until next year
This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni…