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A planetary system anchored by a dead white dwarf star, located around 4,000 light-years away, has offered astronomers a possible glimpse into what our sun and Earth could look like in around 8 billion years.

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The world’s most remote island, where moai stand and stare at the stars, will experience an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. For one eclipse-chaser, it’s unmissable. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an …

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Large Hadron Collider has ended W boson fever. “We have to search for new physics elsewhere,” one researcher says. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Planetary Society

For a mission that doesn’t aim to find alien life, Europa Clipper may come surprisingly close. Through years of development up to today — only weeks away from the mission’s launch — NASA has been clear: Europa Clipper will not reveal alien life.

Space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft and its crew is scheduled to lift off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at 1:17 p.m. EDT (1717 GMT).

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NASA scientists have calculated that Earth will capture a “second moon” on Sunday (Sept. 29). The “mini-moon” comes in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth.

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A large field of stars and galaxies with one shown in a small white squre,. An oddball galaxy in the early universe shines so brightly it outshines its stars. ( …

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NASA and South Korea’s space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission. NASA and the Republic of Korea’s newly created Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) …

CNN

Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making these black hole jets the largest ever seen, according to new …

CBS News

BOSTON – There is the potential that a “naked-eye” comet will be visible over Massachusetts for the next few days. In simpler terms, that means a comet that can be seen without the aid of binoculars or a telescope.