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In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a new “guest star” near Tianguan, the star we now…

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A galaxy merger found by the James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less orderly…

Two humpback whales have done something the species was not supposed to do often: they turned up on…

When the moon drops out of the scene, the stars shine in all their grandeur. While a moonless…

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The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a…

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A tiny field mouse recently got the kind of second chance most wild animals never do after surviving…

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Nearly a millennium ago sky-watchers recorded a new star so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks, and Hubble has now traced how far its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has expanded since — a thousand-year-old explosion still visibly unfolding