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Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance of seeing this shower. The moon ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

Beyond the asteroid belt lies a realm of giants, rings, and frozen mysteries. This video tours the colossal storms of Jupiter, the graceful rings of Saturn, the sideways tilt of Uranus, and the ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...