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Building on that legacy, Lowell Observatory played a key role in the world’s first Planetary Defense mission in 2022, DART ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

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Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

November 2025 promises cosmic chaos with three meteor showers and a double planetary retrograde. Mercury and Jupiter's ...