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NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that's visible to the human eye. That's good news for future ...
A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.
The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...
The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take ...
In the taxi on the way to his apartment, Kosuke switched on his mobile phone and checked his messages. There were three of ...
From the Beehive Cluster to planets and constellations, these are the best sights to search for over the next couple months.
Discover eight top stargazing spots in the Northeast U.S. and Canada, from Pennsylvania to NYC, perfect for witnessing the ...
Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...
On the early morning of May 12, truck driver Brian Robbins witnessed the meteor illuminate the sky above Coolgardie, ...
Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) is the first airport to be named an International Dark Sky Place. The airport replaced over 250 light fixtures to reduce light pollution, benefiting both stargazing and ...
A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling. That all changed in 1783 when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and ...
Aircraft developer JetZero is designing a plane that is being called “a living room in the sky” and the future of commercial ...