Using one spacecraft to block the Sun and another to observe, the pair will fly in tandem with millimeter-level precision.

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Jupiter reaches opposition; meanwhile, the star Canopus shines bright and the constellation Pictor offers many gems to view.

By combining JWST and Hubble data, an unprecedented high-resolution photo of Vega shows an extremely smooth and rare disk.

Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

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In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon passing by Saturn on the evening of December 7. Both objects at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic ...

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Open star clusters sparkle as Luna and Venus line up and Jupiter’s moons jockey for position in the sky this week.

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...