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Space.com

Most are active for a good number of days before and after maximum activity, so you can look for them when moonlight is not a hinderance. Comments (0). a meteor streaks through the sky above the desert. The Pegasid meteor shower and Milky Way were …

Space.com

A brown dwarf no warmer than a campfire and smaller than Jupiter is the coldest star ever found emitting radio waves. Comments (0). lines of energy radiate outward from a brownish star. An illustration of a brown dwarf or a failed star emitting radio …

Space.com

Astronomers will be able to figure out what kind of stars interstellar objects such as ‘Oumuamua come from, and therefore something about their compositions, based on their velocity as they enter our solar system, new research suggests.

CNN

The groundbreaking image is part of a small exhibit tucked away in a corner of the second floor of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility on the campus of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. But the depiction, which …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX test fired a Falcon 9 on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral early Saturday to clear the booster for its 16th flight. A launch attempt early Friday was aborted in the final minute of the countdown. SpaceX did not disclose the reason for the scrub.

The New York Times

Fossils from animals including dinosaurs and stingrays more than 100 million years old were uncovered in a Maryland park in what experts said could be the widest-ranging discovery of fossils of different species on the East Coast. In April, a group of …

Popular Mechanics

Researchers are looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life deep under the sea. A team led by controversial physicist Avi Loeb is combing the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea for remnants of two meteors that they believe could actually …

USA TODAY

The question is simple enough, but as the years go by it’s become apparent that settling on the answer isn’t quite so easy. Even today, the matter remains open to discussion as new research could at any moment upend our previous cosmic conception for the …

The Atlantic

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a Dutch biologist who studies bird nests built of trash.

WSIL TV

The hand-colored version of the Mariner 4 image is part of an exhibit at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dan Goods/NASA/JPL-Caltech.