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Space.com

When Comet Kohoutek was discovered when still remarkably far from the sun — out near the orbit of Jupiter (though nowhere near the planet itself) — the inference was that it was a giant among comets that would become extremely brilliant.

Space.com

We have reached that particular time of the year when the sky is in transition and we are about to turn the page, so to speak, from the glorious wintertime stars and constellations to the somewhat dimmer stars of spring. And the farewell to those …

Space.com

The sand dunes were imaged as part of a program to see how frost melts on the Red Planet in late winter.

Space.com

The findings may confirm the fears of astronomers who argue that satellite constellations such as SpaceX’s fleet of over 3,500 Starlink spacecraft stand to severely impact astronomy. These fears were initially confined to astronomers working …

The Washington Post

Now, a particle physicist and professional flutist have transformed the waveforms of interstellar space data — that dense soup of charged particles — into music fit more for a classical concert. The …

NPR

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans. This surprising discovery, described in the journal …

Scientific American

We slammed a $330 million spaceship the size of a dairy cow into an asteroid the size of a great pyramid. Here’s what we’re learning about how our first step in planetary defense could save us in the future.

Space.com

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter recently took to the skies for its 45th flight, traveling nearly one-third of a mile (0.5 kilometers) — and snapping a gorgeous shot of a Red Planet sunset in the process. Ingenuity is still making short flights around …

Phys.Org

“I was a postdoctoral researcher in Barcelona in 2014 in the group of Antonio Acín when the first author, Ivan Šupić and I began working on self-testing quantum states together,” Matty Hoban, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org.

Astronomy Magazine

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the rare sight of three merging galaxies, each containing a supermassive black hole. According to recent supercomputer simulations, triple mergers such as this may be how ultramassive black holes — those tens …