The new golden age of Moon exploration
Concept image of ispace's lunar lander and exploration vehicle on the moon. The crafts will be carried to space by ...
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Lucky new astronomy product finds this month
Nighttime observing program at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: B. Foott/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA To the Moon University of Chicago PressChicago, IL Lunar: ...
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What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month?
Two planets stand out in March’s evening sky, but let’s start our tour with a pair of lesser lights that ...
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How to get started with DSLR astrophotography
Star trails mark the sky at Calhoun County Park in West Virginia. The author took 15-second exposures for a total ...
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Do Saturn’s rings cast shadows?Â
This dramatic image of the ring shadows on Saturn was taken by Cassini July 16, 2005, when the rings were ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
Back to Article List From the February 2025 issue Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther ...
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Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?Â
Back to Article List From the February 2025 issue While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud ...
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Top 10 space stories of 2024
The exoplanet K2-18 b may have an ocean of water beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s concept. ...
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February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
We’re quickly losing sight of Saturn, but Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Uranus and Neptune are easy binocular ...
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After our Sun becomes a white dwarf and cools completely, what will be left?
Back to Article List From the January 2025 issue Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of ...
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