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Space.com

The spacecraft docked with the orbiting lab a day later, then came back to Earth on Wednesday (May 25), touching down as planned at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Space.com

When the shards of a broken-up comet draw near Earth tonight, the chances of a meteor storm are “hit or miss”, NASA says. But astronomers are excited about the potential of a swarm of new shooting stars nonetheless. The agency advises skywatchers to …

Space.com

A flat-looking galaxy disk. IC 564, a spiral galaxy that is part of the Arp 303 galactic pair imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit …

Space.com

Artist’s illustration of a meteor shower. The tau Herculids from comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann may make an appearance May 30-31. (Image credit: Olga Beliaeva …

Space.com

A new analysis of dwarf galaxy surveys suggests black holes pop up far more commonly within these small galaxies than previously thought. The study team said this study could be a missing link in learning more about how more massive black holes evolve.

CNN

An infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann. The flame-like objects are the comet’s fragments and their tails, while the dusty comet trail is the line between the fragments.

The New York Times

Those are the best predictions that meteor watchers have for the Tau Herculids, a potential celestial spectacle that has sky-watching enthusiasts eager with anticipation. Meteor showers can happen when the Earth plows into debris produced …

CNET

Just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic really kicked off in early 2020, the world was fixated on a distant supergiant star, 700 light-years away known as Betelgeuse. The monstrous furnace suddenly dimmed, becoming 10 times darker than usual.

Mashable

Some 69 million light-years from Earth is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern hemisphere constellation Eridanus. Its arms are strung with young blue stars, pink cotton candy star-forming clouds, and darkened dusty alleyways.

Mashable

The little Martian helicopter-that-could has done it again. Ingenuity, a small 4-pound robotic scout that hitched a ride to the Red Planet last year, has recently sent back video documentation of its farthest and fastest flight yet.