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Something strange has been happening on the Moon, and scientists are struggling to explain it. Despite advanced computers, lasers, and sensors, modern lunar landers keep crashing, tipping over, or ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

Over decades, he’s changed how his peers view the heavens. Space isn’t just an endless canvas to be studied at leisure, he ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

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A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...