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This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...

Look to the western sky about 30-90 minutes after sunset on April 19 for a fleeting but incredible sight, as the razor-thin ...

Groundbreaking space voyages will take place in the coming years ...

Look to the west shortly after sunset on April 17 to find Venus appearing as a bright evening star 15 degrees from the ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Easy: Venus is the weirdest planet in the solar system. The most distant major planet from the sun and the last stop before ...

In honor of Earth Week, Environment Editor Wendy Pollock is taking over today's newsletter for a special edition on climate ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

Choirs, multimedia projections, and NASA astronaut Nicole Stott join NEPA PHIL for “Planets, Moons, & Star Wars” at 7 p.m. on ...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island are revealing new insight into the composition and ...

Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 292 known moons, by far. It’s also the only other cosmic body apart from Earth confirmed to ...