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Comment on this storyCommentFive days after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached the moon Monday, passing within 81 miles of the lunar surface and marking the completion of a key step in the space…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all. Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet.The James Webb Space Telescopetook…

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, Valdosta State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…

BOULDER, Colorado — Astronomers have always sought out remote and isolated spots from which their precision observations of the surrounding universe can be made. Now, add one more far-flung location – the moon. But there is…

The Juno probe has been tasked with studying a leviathan: Jupiter, the heavyweight of the Solar System, King of the Planets.But a planet the size of Jupiter, nearly 318 times the mass of Earth, isn't without its friends.  The gas giant…

Astronomers have found 3 bodies orbiting Elektra, making it the 1st quadruple asteroid system. They previously knew of the outer 2 moons (shown in orange and green orbits). The fainter, inner body (in blue) is the newly discovered 4th…

A Long March-7 Y3 carrier rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on May 29, 2021 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China.Yuan Chen | VCG | Getty ImagesChina plans to lay the…

Scientists announced December 23, 2021, that they used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in the outback of Western Australia to produce the most comprehensive image yet of the black hole eruption in the galaxy Centaurus A.…