Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

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NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

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For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

NASA's VIPER mission targets lunar ice mapping at the South Pole, offering private industry a chance to collaborate on ...

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New Super Bowl commercials take AI from a hidden force to an everyday tool, yet the shortcomings and inconsistencies were hard to ignore.

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...